Steve Server// At about 3:30 am during my first week in the Emergency Department, I realized that the space was different from anywhere else in the hospital. Though it was my second night shift in a row, I wasn’t tired. Or if I was tired, there were too many signals, too many sights and sounds and feelings…
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Coffee with a Colleague: Physician, Author, and Educator, Jay Baruch, MD
Sarah Berry // This interview series features educators, scholars, artists, and healthcare providers whose work is vital to the growth of the health humanities. On Thursday, May 12, I interviewed Dr. Jay Baruch about his forthcoming essay collection Tornado of Life (MIT Press, August 2022), as well as medicine, narrative, and the role of writing…
Coffee With A Colleague: Michael Barthman
Physician and Poet Michael Barthman Sarah Berry // This interview series features educators, scholars, artists, and healthcare providers whose work is vital to the growth of the health humanities. On Friday, September 4, I interviewed Dr. Barthman about his work as an emergency physician, medical educator, health humanities blogger, and poet. Sarah Berry: Can you…
Notes from the Frontline: When Death Becomes Routine (Part 1)
David Thomas Peacock // I wasn’t prepared for so much death. Before I became an emergency room nurse, I worked on a neurology unit with stroke patients. I loved that job. I gained a lot of clinical knowledge from my colleagues, but I learned even more about what it means to be a human faced…
Do not read this book whilst eating: a review of Emergency Admissions by Kit Wharton
Kristina Fleuty // Working for the ambulance service is a job like no other. It is a career of contrasts; delivering emergency medical care requires quick thinking and calmness, and thrusts people into situations simultaneously tragic and comical; emergencies are unbelievable and removed from reality, yet they expose the minutiae of everyday life. In his…