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

Emotional dry cleaning: A writer helps doctors share their stories — and their pain

When the pandemic began, writer Laurel Braitman started an online writing workshop for health professionals. Three years later, it's still going strong. This recent article by Isabella Cueto highlights how this informal gathering has given clinicians a creative way to cope and a safe space to share.

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Arts on Prescription: A Field Guide for U.S. Communities

What if your doctor could prescribe you a poem, or your therapist could refer you to a museum? Each of these could contribute to your health and well-being, which is what the practice of "arts on prescription" aims to do. This Field Guide offers an in-depth resource for communities that wish to formally integrate arts and culture into health and social care systems.

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The medical humanities at United States medical schools: a mixed method analysis of publicly assessable information on 31 schools

What kind of opportunities are available for medical students to engage in the arts and humanities at the top-31 ranked medical schools in the United States? Furthermore, what are the institutional resources devoted to supporting these opportunities? Joshua Anil and colleagues at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania developed a Humanities and Arts Programming Scale to assess this question.

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Communicating Risk Perceptions Through Batik Art

This essay by Reuben Ng, PhD; Nicole Indran, BSocSci; and Pablo Suarez, PhD, describes the creation of a batik art installation titled Risktalk, which illustrates trends in mentions of public health and non-health risk-related topics in the media and literature from 1810 to 2009. Working with local artists, the authors depicted subjects ranging from health-focused words like cancer and diabetes, to broader terms including discovery and uncertainty.

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NYU Langone LitMed Database: New Annotation, The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen

“The Best Minds is a book about a friendship and the ruined life of a talented young person. However, the book, had that been all, would have been one-dimensional. What makes it so rich and rewarding is Rosen’s ability to intertwine Laudor’s story with his own and to juxtapose both with concurrent trends in academia, law, and psychiatry.”  

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8 Questions with… Dr. Pedro “Joe” Greer, Jr.

“8 Questions with…” is a Gold Foundation series spotlighting members of the Gold community. In this interview, Dr. Pedro “Joe” Greer, Jr., a Gold Trustee and the Founding Dean of the Roseman University College of Medicine in Las Vegas, Nevada, talks about lessons learned from patients, the influence of humanistic mentors, his favorite feel-good song, and more.

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Quick Links:

• Do you think more clearly when reading or when listening?
• Beyond Empathy to System Change: Four Poems on Health by Bertolt Brecht
• Why beautiful sadness — in music, in art — evokes a special pleasure
• The use of an object: exploring physician burnout through object relations theory
• The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating: An Uncommon Meditation on Presence and the Aperture of Wonder

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 artwork for an art gallery and silent auction, Deadline: October 1
• Become an Exhibitor or Sponsor: collaborate, showcase, and amplify your organization’s work around humanism in healthcare

Registration is now open! Register by November 3rd for an early-bird discount of $100 off General Admission.

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More opportunities:

• Gold Writing Workshops with Judith Hannan: register now; workshops begin 10/13
• 2023 Conley Art of Medicine Contest, deadline 9/22/23
• Health Humanities Consortium Annual Meeting 2024: “Social, Emotional, and Community Health—Humanities Interventions,” deadline 9/29/23
• Graphic Medicine for Health Humanities, abstract deadline 9/30/23
• American Osler Society Medical Trainee Poetry Anthology, deadline 12/31/23

Sept 23

Finding Our Voices: Humanities in Medicine Conference (Philadelphia, PA)

Sept 26-Oct 4

Collective Trauma Summit 2023 (online)

Sept 29-30

Literature, Medicine, and Memory: A Symposium in Memory of Dr. Carol Donley (Hiram, OH)

Oct 4

Narrative Medicine Rounds: "Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice," a talk with Judith L. Herman (online)

Oct 13-15

Fall Narrative Medicine Basic Workshop (New York, NY)

Oct 19-21

Medicine and The Arts: Exploring the Healing Interactions, International Conference (Barcelona, Spain)

Nov 4

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

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