This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about what clinicians and other health professionals should know about embodiment. The featured guest is Christine Slobogin, PhD an assistant professor…
This article introduces psychogeography as a research method that relies on embodied practices of drifting (dÈrive) through a city, which are followed by subsequent creative cartography. Mapping and documentation that follow dÈrive promote fuller understanding of persons’ patterns of embodying…
This article investigates the importance of storytelling for human well-being. Special attention is given to the roles storytelling has played in human evolution, how sharing stories informs embodied experiences, and the role of storytelling within medicine to promote health.
This article considers how the concept of embodiment is used in artistic practices to promote mind-body integration, kinesthetic empathy, and trust, each of which can be drawn upon to strengthen patient-clinician relationships. This article also offers examples from the world…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about time as a critical resource for rural emergency medical service workers. The featured guest is Representative Eric Emery, a paramedic,…
Critical access and other rural hospitals have struggled to remain open, which exacerbates inequity in rural residents’ access to routine and emergency health services and strains already-taxed rural emergency medical services (EMS). This article discusses the recent history of rural…
Emergency medical services (EMS) care in rural areas of the United States has suffered from being chronically under-resourced and understaffed for many years. Deficits, to a large extent, are due to how EMS is funded and due to shortfalls in…
Office-based gynecologic procedures (OBGPs) are reimbursed at lower rates than similar office urology and dermatology procedures. But there is a broader “hidden curriculum” in health professions training that perpetuates clinicians’ and organizations’ acceptance of these patterns of poor reimbursement, disincentivizes…
Despite high incidence of endometriosis internationally and domestically, many patients wait a decade after symptom onset for an accurate diagnosis. This article suggests why diagnostic criteria should be clarified and why endometriosis screening should be incentivized among members of the…
Non-labor and delivery obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) procedures are an important and necessary part of reproductive health care. However, performing a pelvic exam or procedure, which requires entry through the pelvis, is often an uncomfortable, painful, embarrassing, and anxiety-provoking experience….
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