Poet and NBM Lab member, Alisha Kaplan, discusses her work, narrative-based medicine teaching, writing tips, and connections to her life on Bela Farm.
Posted: Friday October 4, 2024
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Paula Holmes-Rodman reflects on her mother’s passing in this poignant reading of a creative non-fiction piece.
Posted: Monday September 23, 2024
Foundational Certificate alum Paula Holmes-Rodman shares her journey towards narrative-based medicine and her current work in the field.
Posted: Monday September 23, 2024
In this guest piece for the NBM Lab, Dr. Muiris Houston examines the rush to artificial intelligence (AI) in the medical context, and raises questions about its use in Narrative-Based Medicine.
Posted: Wednesday September 11, 2024
An overview of Alan Bleakley’s recent book publications with Routledge that explore the ethics, aesthetics, and politics of medical humanities and the intersection of medicine and poetry.
Posted: Wednesday September 11, 2024
Renowned narrative medicine expert John Launer shares thoughts about his chapter on supervising practitioners who have experienced trauma in the new edited collection Narrative Medicine: Trauma and Ethics.
Posted: Wednesday July 31, 2024
An illness memoir and much more, Sleep is Now a Foreign Country seeks to break down the barriers between those diagnosed with mental illness and the broader community.
Posted: Sunday July 21, 2024
A creative reading delivered at our April 2024 Literary Evening with the NBM Lab.
Posted: Monday July 8, 2024
An excerpt from Chapter 15 of Cancer Confidential: Backstage Dramas in the Radiation Clinic (University of Toronto Press, 2022) read by Charles Hayter at our Literary Evening.
Posted: Monday July 8, 2024
A short memoir in two sections. Reflections on events that took place at an annual national student sport event when I was a track and field team member and a medical student.
Posted: Monday July 8, 2024