Post by HLTD50 student Skylight The voice of the ill person rests in the background of restitution and chaos narratives. However, the voice of the ill-person stands in the foreground of the quest narrative. I am most intrigued by what sociologist Arthur Frank calls “the quest narrative” because it is the only narrative style that… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student T.Kamen Last week in our course HLTD50 we had discussed the restitution narrative. The dictionary meaning is as follows: Restitution (n.) an act of restoring or a condition of being restored: such as a : a restoration of something to its rightful owner b : a making good of or giving an… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student Peppermint_Lattes (Content warning: this post includes discussion of suicidal ideation as represented in poetry. Take care.) Depression is strange: it can hit you like a haymaker. I’ve dealt with it myself in times where I had no control over anything else. That’s when depression starts to settle in for me and… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student Lily Storytelling is a powerful and intimate way of passing along life experiences. Stories can be shared in confidentiality, told to many individuals, or kept in secret; the common thread in each case being that it is the storyteller who has experienced a situation that has the power to choose to… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student TChainz “Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability” – William Osler Art is the projection of our experiences and ourselves. When I first enrolled in HLTB50, Introduction to Health Humanities, I had a revelation in which I would carry throughout my journey in becoming a Medical Officer… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student hhhipster In our first meeting for HLTD50, near the end of the seminar Professor Charise got us to participate in an activity that involved forming random pairs. Once in a pair, we were tasked with drawing our partner’s face within a given time limit (a couple of minutes), without looking down… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student Catastrophe Survivor Having been a bundle of stress-ball my entire life, fear and anxiety, a mental health illness that have affected countless number of people of all ages worldwide, is nonetheless something that I have known and familiarized myself with. That is, the fear that I am not good enough, or the… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student Shining_Diamond_17 What is an outlier and what makes them so special? Malcolm Gladwell, in his best-selling book Outliers, takes two definitional approaches to defining this term: In mathematics, an outlier is “a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample.” In other words, it’s a point… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student KAKhalfan Traditionally, creativity has not been seen as a type of medical practice that could better the health outcomes of patients. Doctors have been traditionally recognized for their abilities to make decisions solely through their medical knowledge and experiences (Baruch, 2017). Through this recognition, patients relay their illness through means of storytelling;… Read More