This poem highlights the complexity and lasting impact of loss. Healthcare professionals frequently offer bereaved families fleeting condolences, but by adopting narra [...]

A drawing illustrating the author's personal mental health journey.

This project was created as part of Narrative Competence for Health Professionals, an inter [...]

This project depicts and explores power dynamics in healthcare. Specifics: 9x12; Marker, pen, colored pencil, pastels, stamps and ink, acrylic paint.

This proje [...]

This study explored family bereavement experiences following the sudden cardiac death (SCD) of a relative. Using narrative analysis, seven families who experienced an SCD [...]

Narrative Medicine (NM) is an approach that harnesses the power of storytelling to enrich an individual’s understanding of illness and patients in the practice of Medicin [...]

Rates of reported burnout and moral injury in healthcare are rising at unprecedented rates, predicting the mass exodus of healthcare staff and employees.1-3 Engaging with [...]

For Mexican-Americans, Type 2 diabetes is the most common and severe chronic illness. Mexican-Americans suffer a disproportionate burden of death and disease from Type 2 [...]

This digital artwork highlights the deficiencies in medical education, the racial and gender biases that contribute to health disparities, and the neglect of patients' [...]

In response to the need for personal connection and meaning making during the social isolation of Covid-19, the elective course Narrative in Times of Transition was devel [...]

November 2018 issue of the Scribe. The issue features several articles focusing on local projects to improve accessibility and quality of care. Contents include: "OHSU in [...]