From the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU Langone Health and the Gold Foundation

National Library of Medicine Collections Tour: Aging

The National Library of Medicine offers a virtual tour of its collection on aging, featuring images, historical films, rare books, exhibitions, and more. These materials highlight not only the science and research related to aging, but the stories of individuals and how they experience the changes that come with growing older.

Explore the collection

The Other Side of the Bounce Back

Words matter, and sometimes it takes a shift in perspective to hear them differently. After the phrase "bounce back" was used to describe her ailing father, Gold Trustee Dr. Kimberly D. Manning considered how insensitive the language of medicine can be: "This was our father … And we were his family—the ones who loved him, sacrificed for him, and tried our hardest to help him stick the landing and not need to return to the hospital. It hurt to hear someone refer to him as a bounce back."

Continue reading in JAMA

The Big Idea: Could We Use Music Like Medicine?

Can the simple act of listening to music improve both our mental and physical health? David Robson reviews the research behind "music medicine" and its benefits in treating pain, depression, sleep problems, and more, as well as shares advice about creating a "medicinal playlist."

Continue reading in The Guardian

Seinfeld, “The Junior Mint,” and How Medical Knowledge Lands in the Public Sphere

How might television influence the public's understanding of medicine? Heather Glenny looks at Seinfeld's "Junior Mint" episode as one example: "Despite its infamy as a 'show about nothing,' [this] episode is emphatically about medicine—medical knowledge, the medical world, medical 'miracles.' More specifically, it centers on how the ‘general population’ receives medical knowledge."

Continue reading in Synapsis

NYU Langone LitMed Database: Annotation, "Tell Her Everything" by Mirza Waheed

In this annotation, Tony Miksanek notes: "This disturbing and at times dastardly story displays more than a slight hint of Franz Kafka’s influence including the brutal application of 'justice' and a byzantine bureaucracy. Even the physician-narrator’s nickname, Dr. K appears to be a nod to Kafka." 

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Announcing the new Gold Resource Library

The new online Gold Resource Library offers users the opportunity to engage with a variety of resources that can help foster the human connection in healthcare. Included in the library are collections that reflect the diverse ways arts, design, and humanities can be integrated into healthcare practice, a Reading Corner, and much more.

Explore the collections

Quick Links:

• Bearing the mark of pain: mystery in medicine
• A Brief But Spectacular take on destigmatizing mental illness through poetry
• ‘You just emotionally break’: understanding COVID-19 narratives through public health humanities
• East of Eden: Illness Representations and the Moral Compass
• The Pest Hospital: Memory, Vaccines, and Serum Therapy in Kansas City

The 2024 Gold Humanism Summit: The Person in Front of You, taking place February 29-March 2 in Atlanta, Georgia, will convene the Gold Foundation's many community members to explore best practices and strategies to fuel change and inspire action. All supporters of humanism in healthcare are welcome. This interprofessional, international event will be focused on igniting humanism to create the tangible changes necessary to heal the heart of healthcare.

• Submit a poster or Gold Mining presentation, Deadline: October 31
• Become an Exhibitor or Sponsor: collaborate, showcase, and amplify your organization’s work around humanism in healthcare

Early Bird Special: Register by November 3rd and General Admission is only $499 ($100 off!). Students, trainees, Community Health Center employees, and Gold Partners Council members also receive discounted pricing.

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More opportunities:

• American Osler Society Medical Trainee Poetry Anthology, deadline 12/31/23
• Journal of Medical Humanities: call for poems on the theme of coming apart and/or becoming whole, deadline 3/15/24
• Journal of Loss and Trauma: call for manuscripts for a Special Issue on "Mindfulness for mitigating loss and trauma," deadline 3/31/24
• AMA Journal of Ethics: call for artwork - "Embodiment in Art Practice," deadline 7/30/24

Oct 29

Grief and Artistic Expression: How it can uplift the soul (online)

Nov 1

Narrative Medicine Rounds: "Why We Look: COVID and Loss, Photography and Consolation" with Marvin Heiferman (online)

Nov 2

De Humani Corporis Fabrica Film Screening (New York, NY)

Nov 4

Taking Care: An Evening of Live Storytelling (New York, NY)

Nov 4-5

Gold Foundation sessions at Learn Serve Lead 2023: The AAMC Annual Meeting (Seattle, WA)

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