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| A – J |
Moustapha Abousamra
Physician, heal thyself
Lealani Mae Acosta
Good patient, good doctor
Beauty in breaking
Umut Akova
Hulusi Behçet (1889–1948) WIN ’25
Andria Albert
The man shackled on 4 Northwest
Saleh Aldasouqi
When the doctor is the patient
Heather Lynn Alva
Defined spaces
Peter Arnold
The loneliness of the long-living doctor
Mahnoor Ayub
Medical education and family caregiving in immigrant populations
Henry Bair
Gifts of gratitude
Notes on a first abortion
Nimisha Bajaj
Letting go of logic
Andrew Bamji
My very own back pain
Anjan Banerjee
Uncertainty and clinical truths
Lara Bazelon
The middle finger: identity crisis in the emergency room
Susan M. Beck
Laundry
Daniel Becker
Imagine
Raymond Bellis
Compassion in the emergency room
Jeanne Bereiter
Shame
Alan Blum
Tattoo stories WIN ’25
Canon Brodar
Learning about children
Rae Brown
I don’t know how it happened
Farrah Bui
Healing through laughter
Gail Burke
Medicine and trust, behind bars
Christopher H. Cameron
Winter race against time
Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
Lesley Campbell
Women changing medicine
Havi Carel
Breathless: philosophical lessons from respiratory illness
Elizabeth Cerceo
Notre Dame and gratitude
Burnout: Are we looking at it through the wrong lens?
Denis Chen
Patient choice—Is it always appropriate?
George W. Christopher
Yes, I’m positive
Eric P. Cohen
Research subject
Erin Crouch and Katelyn McDonald
Red right hand: ectrodactyly as a metaphor
Michael Daley
Case of the authentic chest pain thought too good to be true
Jonathan Davidson
Herbert William Page and the railway spine controversy
The Bancroft doctors: Edward, Daniel, and Nathaniel
Rose A. Devasia
A silent birth
HP Dietz
The law of diminishing returns: biomedical research in trouble
Martin Duke
A fortunate man
Mel Ebeling
On becoming a disabled physician
John Brewer Eberly, Jr.
Fighting the long defeat
“Let the people see what I’ve seen”: beauty, suffering, and learning to see
Obinna Ejide
Health care in Nigeria
Liam Farrell
One thing we can’t live without
Howard Fischer
Humans with tails
The sixtieth anniversary of the “Battered Child Syndrome”
“Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease”
Forty years a watchdog: Sidney Wolfe, M.D.
Abram Gabriel
Intubation incarceration: a true tale of torture
Katrina Genuis
Death and new-doctor eyes
Vani Ghai
Questioning immunology and the soul
Ladan Golestaneh
Mrs. M’s refusal
Pavane L. Gorrepati
What’s hormones got to do with it? The medicalization of menopause in postwar America
John Graham-Pole
Poppy power
Twins
Jeffrey Hauck
Waking dream
Kate Hawkes
Personal magic – creativity and Shamanic ways for wellbeing
Elena Hill
“Do I look gay to you?”
Ellen Hitt
Closed mouth, open heart
Richard P. Holm
A good bedside manner
Prasad Iyer
The oncologist’s mask
David Jeffrey
Montaigne’s Essays: emotions and empathy
D. Brendan Johnson
Furniture of bones
Lawrence H. Jones
What’s old is new again: quackery in the age of the Internet
Hannah Joyner
New life
| K – P |
Swetha Kannan
“You will be alright”
Susan Kaplan
Silent no more
Paul Karagiannis
My first (do no harm) patient
Parnita Kesar
A brief history of ulcerative colitis
Murad Moosa Khan
Which weighs upon the heart
T. Colin Killeen
Call me Sylvester!
Sheila Solomon Klass
Waiting for the darkness to lift
Lloyd W. Klein
When good doctors have bad outcomes: improving clinical practice in a results-oriented environment
Rachel H. Kowalsky
The Lawnmower
Julius Kremling
Why connection matters: Understanding patients’ illness by understanding their reality
Camille Kroll
Seeking medicalization: chronic illness without diagnosed disease
Howsikan Kugathasan
The color of organ markets
Calvin Kunin
Memories of a West Virginia coal camp
Jonathan D. Lewis
Jeremiah Kenoyer’s cancer cure
Kevin R. Loughlin
The privilege of caring for three Nobel laureates and learning from another
Monica Maalouf
The big question
Farrin A. Manian
The lesser of evils
Curtis E. Margo
Ernest A. Codman and the idea of medical accountability
William Marshall
Borderline
Irene Martinez
The second chart
Stacey Maslow
Cloaked in white
Sally Mather, Chris Millard, and Ian Sabroe
Thriving in the face of uncertainty
Jean Jacob Mathews
The free diaper delivery and chat service
Lea Mendes
PEACH: Providing end of life care for the homeless
Atara Messinger
“The GBM in Room 9”: On the objectifying power of naming and diagnosing
Brandon Muncan
Wounded healer
Jacklyn Munn
Provider empathy: a patient’s tale
Ben Murnane
The patient writer: finding meaning in authorship and illness
Ajanta Naidu
A difficult conversation
Elie Najjar
A walk on the pediatric floor
Bernardo Ng
Hispanic, Latin, Latino, Latina, or Latinx?
Ifediba Nzube
Medicine as we know it
Dimitrios G. Oreopoulos
Is there meaning in suffering?
Rebecca Osborn
A dog like that
Charles Ethan Paccione
The healing art of listening
Anthony Papagiannis
Summer heat, crisis, and the glad game
Patients bearing gifts
The girl with the name of a flower
At the turning point
Medicine as handmaiden of technology
Aspects of distancing
Shaking hands
The treasure trove of memory
Dialogues of comfort
Life is short and Art is long: Reflections on the first Hippocratic aphorism
Preparing for the unexpected
Brief encounters
Great expectations
Not-so-natural history
Young, pretty, and not quite right
Doctor-patient reunions
Drama in brief
Once a professor…
Endurance
J.M.S. Pearce
Patients and society: The big divide
Empathy or sympathy?
Physician associates and independent prescribers
Physic
Constance E. Putnam
Doctor’s daughter: reflections on a family’s role in a physician’s practice
| R – Z |
Jayant Radhakrishnan and Bangalore Jayaram
Orion H. Stuteville: a surgeon’s surgeon
Tuhina Raman
Block
Goutham Rao
The unconscious eater – The modern glutton
Shruthi Ravishankar
Heartbreak in the nursery
Javishkar Reddy
The invisible manager
Ronald Rembert
Burnout
Jack Riggs
Signs
Megan Rizer
Room 460
Alida Rol
“Mississipi Appendectomy” and other stories: When silence is complicity
Damiano Rondelli
People or numbers: healing and efficiency
Gregory Rose
The big sheepdog
Brianna Rossiter
Un-impostering
Paul Rousseau
Wedding anniversary
Kate Rowland
A love story
Geoffrey Rubin, Mark Abrams, and D. Edmund Anstey
The Plague and physician burnout
Gregory W. Rutecki
Retirement reflections: from code to compassion with Chloe
Shrestha Saraf and Sudarshan Ramachandran
Homeopathy: medicine or placebo?
Aneesa Sataur
Pain and palpation: reading the body narrative with the osteopathic medical touch
Ami Schattner
From enigma to Jeremy
Christopher J. Schayer
Undignified
Riley Scherr
Words
Naomi Schlesinger, Gregory Maniatis, Ranita Sharma, and Boris D. Veysman
The diagnostic eclipse
Gautam Sen
Spirituality in medicine
Ariana Shaari
Dr. Arrieta’s lesson: Have we lost something in the gain?
Suchita Shah
Where doctors cannot reach: tales from a British High Street
Ahmad Shakeri and Howsikan Kugathasan
A wider science
Fergus Shanahan
Waiting
Support players in the story of an illness – how to behave
Medicine’s pandemonium of paradoxes
Healing: A word that connects or separates patients from their doctors
Shreya Sharma
In sickness and in health: misogyny in medicine
William Shimp
The doctor becomes the patient: an internist’s journey from skepticism to gratitude
Rebecca M. Shulman
The Basest of the Senses
Shampa Sinha
Snakes and ladders
Bryan Sisk
Feto-nosophobia
Annabelle Slingerland
The Beetham Eye Institute at the Joslin Diabetes Center
Patients without borders: cardiac surgery, activism, and advocacy
Annabelle Slingerland and J. Wouter Jukema
The song of diabetes
Richard Sobel
Those golden years
Richard Sobel and Peggy Aylsworth
Mimetic disease
R.S. Steinberg
The last of the “just”
James Stoeller
Flyfishing and medicine
Brittany Suann
White Australia: How white healthcare has affected Indigenous Australians
Vigneshwar and Nivetha Subramanian
Healing in post-genocide Rwanda
Chris Sumberg
Quickly now, where does it hurt?
Gordon Sun
What could have been
Irene Switankowsky
Honoring a Patient’s Inner Wisdom
Alexandria Szalanczy
On your doctor’s orders
Edward Tabor
A Hispanic amulet against disease in infants
The birds of death
The mystery of the hoofbeats WIN ’25
Mark Tan
Painting an ICU
Jessica Tang
Beyond Medicine
Kathryn Taylor
The hypocrisy of the advice-giver
Kanani Titchen
Just like that
Carla Treloar
Reflections on the practice of treatment for drug dependence
Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe
For debate: Presents from patients
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth: But to what end?
Sandro Vento
Making a difference in the AIDS epidemic
Yen-Hsiang Wang
A confession from a patient of atopic dermatitis
Dane Wanniarachige
Understanding and combatting ageism in healthcare
Simon Wein
A moonie
Caroline Wellbery
Looking
Jennifer Wineke
Decoding doctor-speak in the era of OpenNotes
Bharata Wingham
Warning: laughter can be hazardous to your illness
Singh Yadav
The impact of technology on healthcare
Andrew Yim
Pain management
Frank Yurasek
Mainstreaming acupuncture in Chicago
Wali Zahid
Health flash: humanize medicine, the time is now
| Vignettes |
Vignettes
Scoliosis
Healing beyond the sterile chamber (Brody M. Fogelman)
The root of all problems (Anthony Papagiannis)
Passing sentence (Anthony Papagiannis)
A midnight call (Anthony Papagiannis)