Section of Medical Humanities Newsroom

December 5, 2022 • Medical Humanities Section

ACEP22 Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the October 7, 2022 Section of Medical Humanities meeting.

September 16, 2022 • Medical Humanities Section

Section of Medical Humanities Writing and Visual Arts Awards

The Section of Medical Humanities is soliciting submissions for its fifteenth annual Writing Awards.

April 28, 2022 • Medical Humanities Section

From the Chair

An update from the Medical Humanities Section Chair, Seth C. Hawkins, MD, FACEP

April 28, 2022 • Medical Humanities Section

Writing Award Winner, Prose, 2021

“Probabilities,” Joshua Michael, MD

April 28, 2022 • Medical Humanities Section

Writing Award Winner, Poetry, 2021

“They Will Say That We Were Savages,” Sophia Gorgens, MD

April 28, 2022 • Medical Humanities Section

Visual Arts Award Winner, 2021

“Returning Home From My Shift,” Shar Kennett, MD Visual Arts Award Winner, 2021

April 28, 2022 • Medical Humanities Section

Visual Arts Award Submission, 2021

“Escape From COVID,” K Kay Moody, MD Visual Arts Award Submission, 2021

April 28, 2022 • Medical Humanities Section

Visual Arts Award Submission, 2021

“Sfumato Fog,” Peter Paganussi, MD Visual Arts Award Submission, 2021

April 28, 2022 • Medical Humanities Section

Section of Medical Humanities 2020-21 Annual Report

Section of Medical Humanities 2020-21 Annual Report

July 27, 2021 • Medical Humanities Section

Section of Medical Humanities Writing and Visual Arts Awards

The Section of Medical Humanities is soliciting submissions for its fourteenth annual Writing Awards. Eligible pieces are creative, not scientific, works related to emergency medicine published in pri...

March 30, 2021 • Medical Humanities Section

Auspicious Start to an Inauspicious Year

Photo by Nick Sausen, MD

March 30, 2021 • Medical Humanities Section

2020 Medical Humanities Section Writing Award Winner – Poetry Category

Pothole or Portal by Jay Kaplan, MD, FACEP

March 30, 2021 • Medical Humanities Section

2020 Medical Humanities Section Writing Award Winner – Prose Category Edward Lew, MD, FACEP

Transference, Countertransference by Edward Lew, MD, FACEP

March 30, 2021 • Medical Humanities Section

2020 Medical Humanities Section Visual Arts Award Winner

Self Portrait of a Physician in PPE by Maria Escarcia, DO

March 30, 2021 • Medical Humanities Section

The Apocalypse

A poem by Elizabeth Mitchell MD, FACEP

March 30, 2021 • Medical Humanities Section

Covid: A Medical Student’s Perspective

Reflection by Morgan Sweere Treece

February 11, 2021

Dr. Baruch on ACEP Frontline

Host of 'ACEP Frontline' Dr. Ryan Stanton and Dr. Jay Baruch discuss medical humanities, its focus and goals in emergency medicine, and the role of a physician as an educator. Released on January 16, ...

February 11, 2021

Humanities at the Bedside

With the support of an ACEP section grant, the Medical Humanities Section aspired to create a space for issues common to our practice that might keep us up at night, that we mention in passing to our ...

December 19, 2019

Just Keep Pedaling

“Sir, buy me a gingeale!” someone shouts as I turn left and lean against the cold to turn onto Jesse Hill Dr. at 4:45am. The statement is such a sudden cut through the meditation of pedaling that I co...

January 10, 2019

Ugly Betty

‘Betty Luna’ was a frequent flier at all of our local ERs for years. Everyone was on a first name basis with her. To look at her, Betty was truly disgusting.

January 10, 2019

Healing the Hopeless, or Hopelessly Healing?

Hopeless eyes and crying fear Moving from room to room… life to life… Only briefly touching a part: the body. Futile bandage on ailing bodies, Finger in the dam of years of abuse; But somehow missing ...

September 6, 2017

The Crimean War and the Evolution of the United States Medical Department During the American Civil War

Historians have consistently emphasized the fact that the Union army was wholly unprepared for the Civil War in April of 1861. In almost every aspect of what it takes to wage war on the scale that thi...

September 6, 2017

In The News

The least news from our Chair Dr. Jay Baruch

September 6, 2017

Adopting a Baby in Five Days

“If you ever had to adopt a baby then whom would you settle for?” This was the question that I posed to myself recently. Not that I had to nor wanted to adopt a child. I have two of my own (biologica...

March 17, 2017

Letting Ali Die

Ali was on bed 16. He was 10 months old and critically sick. Till the day before, per his mother, Ali had been quite normal. He had been taken to a neighbor’s house by the neighbor’s daughter.

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