Discussion Guides
After each Medical Humanities Chat, the readings, discussion questions, and comments are synthesized into a discussion guide. These discussion guides can be used to bring #medhumchat to your classroom, clinic, and community.
Poetry: Intensive Care by Jane O Wayne
Prose: Practicing Medicine Can be Grimm Work by Valerie Gribben
with special guest Dr. Utibe R Essien
Poetry: Caged Bird by Maya Angelou
Prose: Racism and the Off-Duty Doctor by Sriram Shamasunder
Prose: A Tough Mind And A Tender Heart by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Prose: Meat Slurry and My Particular Brand of Optimism by Dr. Diana Cejas
Poetry: the benediction of Our Lady of Hyperglycemia by Dr. Irène Mathieu
Poetry: The Rabbit by Mary Oliver
Poetry: Bone by Mary Oliver
Poetry: The Performance by Rafael Campo
Prose: The Beat Goes On by Suleika Jaouad
with special guests Dr. Kelly Doran and Dr. David Rosenthal
Poetry: A Worker’s Speech to a Doctor by Bertolt Brecht
Poetry: A Bed for the Night by Bertolt Brecht
Poetry: In the Land of the Body (#2) by Chana Bloch
Prose: How Long Have I Got Left? by Paul Kalanithi
with special guest Dr. Zachery Sager
Prose: selections from God’s Hotel by Victoria Sweet
Prose: Nurturing Medicine by Zachary Sager
Poetry: Pain Has an Element of Blank by Emily Dickinson
Prose: The Pain Scale by Eula Biss