Eileen Storey, LKSOM Class of 2021, The Race We Already Lost, JAMA, July 27, 2021: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2782297
Joe Corcoran, LKSOM class of 2021, Still Life, The Journal of Lancaster General Hospital, Summer, 2020: http://www.jlgh.org/Past-Issues/Volume-15-Issue-2/Corcoran_Still-Life.aspx
Erin Camac, DO, assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, “Treating patients with the most fragile lungs during a pandemic,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 23,, 2021: https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/chronic-lung-disease-covid-19-temple-20210225.html
Our stories have been featured in a variety of media:
Mary Morrison, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, “My Improbable Mentor Quotes Osler,” Academic Psychiatry, January 2020: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40596-019-01166-z
- Miloni Parekh, LKSOM class of 2020, “It Was Already Too Late,” Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Academic Medicine, June 2020:
https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Fulltext/2020/06000/It_Was_Already_Too_Late.13.aspx Erin Narewski, DO, assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, A Temple physician on the front lines of COVID-19: Do I go home each night and risk my husband’s health? | Opinion, April 23, 2020: https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-covid19-front-line-physician-temple-hospital-20200403.html
Marcin Chwistek, MD, Supportive Oncology and Palliative Care Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, “Are You Wearing Your White Coat? Telemedicine in the time of a pandemic” A Piece of My Mind, JAMA, June 25, 2020 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2767746
“Simply call him abuelo” Neurology. February 13, 2018 Tim McKinley, Lewis Katz School of Medicine MS3: https://n.neurology.org/content/neurology/90/7/e623.full.pdf
“I Remember the First Time I Saw a Teenager Die” The New York Times. February 14, 2019. Eric Curran, Lewis Katz School of Medicine MS3: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/opinion/sunday/guns-violence-hospitals.html
- “At mother’s side in her final hours,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 14, 2019 Ghazal Khorrami, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, MS2: https://www.inquirer.com/health/last-four-hours-my-mothers-life-20190214.html
Naomi Rosenberg, MD, Emergency Medicine, JAMA, The Arts and Medicine October 1, 2019, Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” and the Challenge of Growing Up in Medical Training: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2752037
“24 Hours in an epidemic,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 21, 2019. By 22 students in the Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Naomi Rosenberg, M.D, and Michael Vitez, director of narrative medicine: https://www.inquirer.com/health/opioids-heroin-philadelphia-temple-university-medical-students-kensington-20190421.html
“Time is a gift in the ER,” Kevin MD.com, August, 30, 2019 Lauren Schmidt, M.D. third year surgical resident, Temple University Hospital. https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2018/08/time-is-a-gift-in-the-er.html
“Reflections after a medical student’s first code blue,” KEVIN MD.com, February 1, 2019. Danielle Verghese, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, MS3: https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2019/02/reflections-after-a-medical-students-first-code-blue.html
“3 Philadelphia doctors reflect on the patients they’ve lost and the moments that stay with them”The winning personal essays from Temple Hospital's recent writing contest. May 20, 1019: https://www.inquirer.com/health/temple-health-writing-narrative-medicine-hospital-20190516.html
Pamela Vasquez, substance abuse counselor, Temple University Hospital, “I lost one daughter to heroin. Then I had to save her little sister.” Nov. 28, 2019: https://www.inquirer.com/health/expert-opinions/opioid-addiction-overdose-mother-daughter-recovery-20191128.html
- “He just had a lung transplant. Now he’s training to climb Mount Kilimanjaro” Philadelphia Inquirer. February 15, 2018. David Skalski, patient Temple University Hospital: https://www.inquirer.com/philly/health/lung-transplant-temple-climb-mount-kilimanjaro-20180215.html
“A Good Death” Philadelphia Magazine. April 28, 2018 Mary Kraemer, M.D. Director, Palliative Care, Temple University Hospital: https://www.phillymag.com/be-well-philly/2018/04/28/docstories-mary-kraemer/
“When the Neurologist Really Knows How Patients Feel” The New York Times. June 7, 2018 Lauren Waldron, M.D. Lewis Katz School of Medicine (written as MS4): https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/well/pediatric-neurologist-stroke.html
“How working Christmas Eve in the hospital became this family’s tradition” December 23, 2018 Naomi Rosenberg, M.D. Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Narrative Medicine: https://www.inquirer.com/health/doctors-working-christmas-eve-in-hosptial-20181220.html
“Med School Lessons on the Reality of Firearms,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 28, 2018 Miranda Haslam, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, MS2 https://www.inquirer.com/philly/health/gun-violence-physicians-nra-temple-university-medical-student-20181128.html
“Locked Down,” Health Affairs, Narrative Matters, October 2018 Tony Reed, M.D., Associate Chief Medical Officer, Temple University Hospital. https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.0646
“Temple Student’s answer to the stress of medical school? Cartoons” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 2018 Profile on Mai Stewart, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, MS4: https://www.inquirer.com/philly/health/temple-katz-med-school-cartoon-stress-mai-20181120.html
“To fight physician burnout, I’m making a binder of medical successes,” STAT NEWS, April 5, 2017. Erin Barnes, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, MS4: https://www.statnews.com/2017/04/05/physician-burnout-document-medical-success/
“A Place for music in the emergency department,” KEVIN MD.com, Oct. 23, 2017 Thomas Scary, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, MS4: https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2017/10/place-music-emergency-department.html
“Stupid Consult,” Academic Medicine, August 2017 Jonathan Kersun, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Temple University Hospital: https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/fulltext/2017/08000/stupid_consult.25.aspx
“I survived the Boston Marathon Bombing and I’ll be Back,” Yahoo News, April 15, 2017 Patient Johanna Hantel, thanking Howard Palamarchuk, DPM, Temple School of Podiatric Medicine: https://www.yahoo.com/news/survived-boston-marathon-bombing-ill-back-year-even-walk-090003640.html
Finding Humanity in the face of death, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 5, 2017 Madeline Rose Lederer, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, MS1: https://www.inquirer.com/philly/health/A-medical-student-to-her-first-cadaver-the-beauty-and-privilege-of-this-moment.html
Habit of the Heart _ Stories from Temple’s Narrative Medicine Program, Medium, Sept. 12, 2017 Michael Vitez, Director of Narrative Medicine, LKSOM, profile of Jocelyn Edathil, M.D. TUH (This led to stories in Philly Voice, 6ABC, Catholicphilly.com, Temple News, Temple Health Magazine, Montco.today and more.): https://medicine.temple.edu/education/narrative-medicine-program/habit-heart
“Mondo _ my first patient,” International Journal of Academic Medicine, March 2017. Thiyagarajan, Dhanalakshmi MS2, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, https://www.ijam-web.org/article.asp?issn=2455-5568;year=2017;volume=3;issue=1;spage=209;epage=210;aulast=Thiyagarajan
Narrative Medicine: Every Patient Has a Story, AAMC NEWS, March, 28, 2017 Story featuring Michael Vitez, director of narrative medicine, LKSOM: https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/narrative-medicine-every-patient-has-story
“Med School Lessons on the Reality of Firearms,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 28, 2018 Miranda Haslam, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, MS2: https://www.inquirer.com/philly/health/gun-violence-physicians-nra-temple-university-medical-student-20181128.html
“The long road from `let me die’, The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 15, 2016 Michael Vitez, director of narrative medicine, LKSOM, profile of Amtrak Crash survivor Aaron Levine: https://www.inquirer.com/philly/opinion/20160515_The_long_road_from__let_me_die_.html
“Doctor-in-training learns bedside manners, the hard way.” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct. 15, 2016 Michael Rockman, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, MS1: https://www.inquirer.com/philly/health/20161016_A_doctor-in-training_learns_bedside_manners__the_hard_way.html
How to Tell a Mother Her Child is Dead” The New York Times. September 4, 2016. Naomi Rosenberg, M.D. Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Narrative Medicine: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/opinion/sunday/how-to-tell-a-mother-her-child-is-dead.html