Narrative Medicine

How flowers make us better PAs

April 16, 2012

I'm finally starting to get this "humanities in medicine" thing. Maybe you got it a long time ago, but it's just coming into focus for me.
 

A Day in the Life: Timothy Sayles, MPAS, PA-C

August 17, 2010

The author recounts the challenges and rewards of practicing at a rural health clinic in central Texas.
 

Love's labors lost: Sexual dysfunction in an adolescent male

August 06, 2010

When a teen-age boy disguises his true intention to receive a Viagra prescription, the author reflects on relationships and reading between the lines.
 

House calls, homebodies: Remembering that you came

June 16, 2010

The comfort of a clinician's home visit is immeasurable to patients who wish to live their last days in their own home.
 

Telling it slant: Using poetry 
as a venue for healing

April 27, 2010

When the author is invited to speak to a local boy scout troop, he uses poetry to find a pathway in to a difficult subject.
 

A day in the life of Major Shawn T. Buller, APA-C, MPH

April 13, 2010

The author narrates the activities of a day while deployed as a aeromedical physician assistant in Iraq.
 

A grief observed: A belated bill must finally be paid

February 25, 2010

An encounter with a patient last seen 6 years previously reminds the author that there's no escaping grief. It always catches up with us.
 

Evaluating the patient with a measure of equanimity

December 29, 2009

The author reflects that no matter how many times he has examined a child who has been abused, the experience doesn't get any easier.
 

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