A Brief Encounter
This article has been deidentified to protect the anonymity and confidentiality of the patient in the story. Any matches in names or circumstances to other… Read More »A Brief Encounter
This article has been deidentified to protect the anonymity and confidentiality of the patient in the story. Any matches in names or circumstances to other… Read More »A Brief Encounter
This article has been deidentified to protect the anonymity and confidentiality of the patient in the story. Any matches in names or circumstances to other… Read More »Learning to Read
Photo left to right: Sahithi Madireddy, Amy Feng, Pallavi Menon, Paul O’Rourke I was fortunate to receive funding from the school of medicine to attend… Read More »Gold Humanism Summit 2025: The Person in Front of You
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Smoking causes cancer. That may be enough for some people, but for those interested in what happens in between, what follows is one explanation. Upon… Read More »Explaining Illness
This article has been deidentified to protect the anonymity and confidentiality of the patient in the story. Any matches in names or circumstances to other… Read More »Slowing Down
I had never been more grumpy in my life. It was almost midnight, and our group had been walking for over 15 hours. On the… Read More »The Path to Purpose: From Trail to Medical Training
As a postdoctoral fellow who spends her days conducting basic science research, I have noticed mice unexpectedly become a familiarity within my daily life. However,… Read More »From Mickey to Morris – A Reflection on Mice, Metaphor and Medical Science
One of my responsibilities as a graduate student in the history of medicine is to serve as a teaching assistant to Johns Hopkins undergraduates who… Read More »The Case for Studying History As a Medical Student
A toddler born with a severe neuromuscular disease takes their first steps. A woman born blind sees a sunset emblazoned across a mountain valley her… Read More »Restoring Hearing, Redefining Identity: New Therapeutics and Challenges