Talking With My Hands
The formative experience I had long sought emerged outside the context of feedback itself. I had spent my rotation in search of people who would change me, but I had not expected to find them dressed ...
10 Jan 20224min
New Constellations
With the mask muffling my voice and the omnipresent sound of monitor alarms, words too, were strained. I grew irate at the situation. The inability to talk. The inability to connect. The inability to ...
27 Des 20217min
Dear Reader
Even in the age of medical miracles, there is still no intervention more powerful than a genuine human connection. There is no lab, no scan, no test, no drug, no surgery, that can replace it. For the ...
20 Des 20216min
Nurses Encounter Diversity
Dementia does not rob the ears of joy. Recent nursing school graduate Anna Swartzlander remembers a patient with dementia who shared with her his love of music. This essay placed second in the 2021 Ho...
13 Des 20215min
The Motherhouse
Why do I find it so much easier to deal with death after the fact than I do watching its slow, looming approach, like the shadow of a cloud creeping over my face? I think of cupping water between my h...
6 Des 20216min
Someone Else's Mother
"My time, energy, and focus are finite; one clear, properly motivated action will come at the cost of another. It is easy to think this means I will miss out on important moments, or that I may disapp...
29 Nov 20216min
The Eco-Normalization Model: A New Framework for Evaluating Innovations
Guest Deena Hamza, PhD, joins hosts Toni Gallo and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee member and assistant editor Dan Schumacher, MD, PhD, MEd, to discuss a new framework for evaluating in...
22 Nov 202131min
Learning to Show Patients You are Listening From 3,000 Miles Away
It is often minute details such as the lack of internet, transportation, or a signature that can prevent people from completing an application for food stamps or the medication they need. By acknowled...
15 Nov 20215min
