The Magic of Childbirth
It’s not the gentle flight of a stork through the glimmering sunshine of new day. It’s new life knit from blood and sinew in the darkness of a womb, a potentially dangerous craft of rearranged organs that can...
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Art
An Interview with “Poets and Muses” Creator: Imogen Arate
Culture and medicine can serve as reflections of each other. As societal changes affect conceptions of health and illness, it is important to explore the expression of health and medicine. In this interview, I speak with Imogen Arate,...
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The Medical Persona: An Interview with a Mask-Maker
Recently, the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Phoenix hosted an Art in Medicine event focusing on ceramics and the creation of masks. This event, led by Dr. Cynthia Standley and Lisa Swanson, the director of ArtMobile, allowed students...
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Hello
Medical students participate in a Gross Anatomy Laboratory as part of their first-year training towards becoming future physicians. Many view this as a “rite of passage,” as these willed-body donors are often our first and most intimate patients....
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An Interview with Monica Martinez
This interview is re-created from the conversation I had with Monica Martinez, the artist responsible for the Nothing in Stasis exhibit that is currently in the lobby of the HSEB. An interview from earlier in her career can...
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55-Word Reflection on a Patient Experience
Internal Medicine Patient: Veteran, father, grandfather COPD, heart failure, new diagnosis of terminal cancer Denial, anger, depression Weeks in the hospital My last day comes “It’s been my pleasure,” I say “Thank you for seeing me every day,”...
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Didactic Blocks Expressed as Poetry: Clinical Anatomy
For each issue of The Differential, our arts editor will write a piece in a specific poetic form that reflects the themes, material, pathologies, and/or student maturity/mindset during the block that she experienced the previous year. All of...
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Medicine in Art History
Likely, all of us in middle school or high school had to take an art class—a drama class, band, or art class maybe. Believe it or not, I thought I was awful at all of those; my doodling...
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Writing Workshop III: The End of the World
For the third installment of the Writing Workshop series, I am using the same prompt that was featured previously in Sara Pousti’s piece, “How Resilience Found Beauty”: More than anything, I wanted to tell the world… I’ve always...
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