Optional Readings

Please send Nasheeka Conix or your Program Director additional readings you’d like to add here as a resource for other students. 

June 17, 2024

June 26, 2024

Narrative Medicine: Mara Gordon, MD

Presentation: ​​

 

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Narrative Medicine reading suggestions:

  • “Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis” by Lisa Sanders
  • NYT Diagnosis Column by Lisa Sanders
  • “In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope” by Rana Awdish
  • “Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted” by Suleika Jaouad
  • “Pulp Empire” by Paul S. Hirsch​

Harm Reduction: Brian Work, MD, MPH

No More Secrets: Mind Body Spirit, Inc.: Lynette Medley, MEd & Nya McGlone, MS

Reproductive Rights: Kimberly Mutcherson, JD

Health Literacy: Mary Ellen Miller, PhD, RN, APHN-BC

Smoking Cessation: Ryan Coffman, MPH, CHES, CTTS-M

July 3, 2024

Film Producer: André Robert Lee

July 10, 2024

​Surface Pressure from Encanto

July 17, 2024

​​​Child Abuse: Mario Cruz, MD
Medical Director, Jefferson Einstein Pediatrics

Child Abuse resources:
www.keepkidssafe.pa.gov
Childline 1-800-932-0313

Gun Violence: Scott Charles, MAPP

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