Series Review Khalid Ali, Film and Media Correspondent Reflections on Seventh Year Itch (TV series, directed by Karim El Shennawy, Egypt, 2023) available on Shahid MBC Integrating medical education with arts and humanities has provided great opportunities for medical students to hone their communication skills and desirable qualities such as respect and empathy.1 Combining the […]
Month: April 2023
March 2023 Issue
Chronicling the Chronic: Narrating the Meaninglessness of Chronic Pain Femke van Hout, Aukje van Rooden, Jenny Slatman Finding more Constructive Ways Forward in the Debate over Vaccines with Increased Disability Cultural Competence Carolin Ahlvik-Harju (De)Troubling Transparency: Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Clinical Applications [read the article summary] Peter David Winter, Annamaria Carusi Race, Class, Caste, Disability, […]
Find Where Light in Darkness Lies (“Love’s Labour’s Lost”, William Shakespeare)
Film Review by Franco Ferrarini, gastroenterologist, and film reviewer ‘Empire of Light’, Sam Mendes, UK, 2022 Set in the early 80’s, Hilary (Olivia Colman) is a middle-aged woman working as a duty-manager at the “Empire”, a movie theatre in Margate, Kent. ‘’Find where light in darkness lies’’ is the caption from Shakespeare’s ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ […]
Patients Making Meaning: Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women’s Health
Blog by Bryna Siegel Finer, Cathryn Molloy, and Jamie White-Farnham Patients suffer when they do not get the information and support that they need—particularly when they are faced with a health flashpoint, which we define in our work as a new diagnosis, a flare or worsening of an existing condition, or the point at which […]
Making Space for Disability Studies within a Structurally Competent Medical Curriculum: Reflections on Long Covid
Article Summary by Joanne Hunt This article makes a case for integrating knowledge and tools from the discipline of disability studies into undergraduate medical school curricula, with a view to encouraging critically informed, structurally competent medical education and practice. Here, ‘structural competency’ refers to the recognition that both health and healthcare are influenced by social […]