Tag: medical humanities

Benjamin Popokh Benjamin Popokh (3 Posts)

Contributing Writer

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Benjamin is a first-year family medicine resident in Fort Worth, Texas. In 2021, he graduated from UT Austin (Hook 'Em!) with a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience and Bachelor of Science and Arts in Biology. In his free time, he enjoys running, reading, medical etymology and all things outdoors. After graduating residency, Benjamin would like to pursue a career in rural Family Medicine, with an additional year of training in Obstetrics.




Tales Behind the Terms: Newborn Skin Rashes

Published by Benjamin Popokh

Medical Etymology: Tales Behind the Terms is a series of articles discussing the stories, origins, and meanings of words we use every day in medicine. The goal is to explore the history of the complex jargon we use with patients and learners. In doing so, I hope that we, as physicians-in-training, can deliver better healthcare that is understandable and memorable for all. Newborn skin rashes are incredibly common, and while some may appear concerning, most are …

Tales Behind the Terms: Measles

Published by Benjamin Popokh

Medical Etymology: Tales Behind the Terms is a series of articles discussing the stories, origins, and meanings of words we use every day in medicine. The goal is to explore the history of the complex jargon we use with patients and learners. In doing so, I hope that we, as physicians-in-training, can deliver better healthcare that is understandable and memorable for all. Measles is an infection most likely derived from the Middle English “masel”, meaning …

Quince

Published by Medha Palnati

15. Fifteen minutes before I was supposed to leave the hospital, April’s pager went off. That beep, beep, beep is now forever seared in my mind. She pulled up the imaging of the patient we were about to meet, barely looking up as the ICU physician, Dr. Wissman, whizzed by her. “I accepted a crazy transfer,” he called out without stopping, “it’s from an urgent care.” April’s green eyes darted up and down the computer …

Music in Medicine, Music as Medicine

Published by Sarah Kim

I walk into my patient’s room as he is receiving a blood transfusion with a guitar strapped across my back and sheet music in hand. He is used to seeing me in the early mornings when the surgical team rounds. He has been in the hospital for a week now, recovering from a liver cancer resection. He had joked with me in the operating room before he went under anesthesia, and I had looked forward …

Moving Beyond Knowledge

Published by Patrick Hamann

The ability to empathize and to wonder is fundamental to being human. These aspects of thought allow us to expand our knowledge and deepen our connections with others. Before starting medical training, I believed I would maintain my own sense of wonder, perhaps even expand it through new experiences. Yet after three years of medical school, I have found this more difficult than expected. Although medical education has certainly broadened my mind and offered remarkable …

Detectives in Disguise

Published by Sara Wierbowski

When I was growing up, I used to love a particular series of video games called Trauma Center. In 2010, they released a version called Trauma Team where you got to play as various medical specialists, one of whom was simply considered a “Diagnostician.” Dr. Gabriel Cunningham’s “cases” were some of the most challenging because you were presented with an array of symptoms, imaging, and lab work and started ruling in or ruling out diagnoses until you got the right answer.

No. 17A

Published by Chad Childers

My attention swung back and forth between my mom, my screen and the pairs of eyes periodically peering into the hospital room. I focused on the next question on my screen. Another patient had expired as if they were a carton of milk left too long in the fridge.

The Interpretation of Cultures

Published by Apshara Ravichandran

During my Step 1 dedicated study period, I remember looking at these visual comparisons of an early version of First Aid and the most recent edition and feeling righteous indignation bubble up inside me. The former was thin and worn and tattered while the latter was thick, hefty, solid. Hundreds of pages longer, the newest edition felt impenetrable and impossible to commit to memory, expanding yearly with new minutiae to scrutinize.

Eshiemomoh Osilama Eshiemomoh Osilama (6 Posts)

Editor-in-Chief and Former Writers-in-Training Intern

Geisinger College of Health Sciences

Eshiemomoh Osilama is a medical student at Geisinger College of Health Sciences in Scranton, PA, Class of 2024. He graduated from Columbia University in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in biology. He enjoys reading and writing poetry, baking, theater, singing, museums, traveling, beaches and oceans, photography, and being an extraordinary guncle. Momoh is pursuing a career in psychiatry.