2/4/21: 17th Annual Writer's Workshop
Workshop Publications & Press
Selected Publications
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Academic Medicine:
- Justin List, A Standardized Test Question, Revisited
- Dena Rifkin, Hungry Ghosts
- Dena Rifkin, Doctors without Metaphors
- Dena Rifkin, Editor, In a Few Words column
- Kenar Jhaveri, Shared Journeys
Annals of Internal Medicine:
- Eric Goralnick, Moses
- Scott Heysell, Having Walked the Path
- Sarah Mourra, One Thousand and One Nights
- Devan Kansagara, The Waiting Room
- Sheila M. Quinn, Etymology
Hastings Center Report:
- Guang-Shing Cheng, Prejudice
- Guang-Shing Cheng, Compromise
- Dena Rifkin, The Elephant in the Room
- Douglas Olson, Improvisation
Health Affairs: Teeb Al-Samarrai, Adrift in Africa: A US Medical Resident On An Elective Abroad
Huffington Post: Lydia Dugdale, Primary Care is in Crisis
JAMA:
- Scott Heysell, The Quiet Storm
- Nitin Kapur, Doppelganger
- Allison Arwady, Collaterals
- Alia Chisty, Forever Young
- Rachel Osborn, The Mask
- Jonathan Stock, Does More Achievement Make Us Better Physicians? The Academic Arms Race
Journal of General Internal Medicine:
- Albert Khine, Confirmation
- Lydia Dugdale, The Fighter
- Justin List, This Wound is Consistent with Harm
Journal of Palliative Medicine:
- Erin Zarahdnik, Helena
Kevin MD.com:
- Teeb Al-Samarrai, Health Reform is in the Hands of The Supreme Court
- Teeb Al-Samarrai, A Physician Has Difficulty Choosing A Primary Care Doctor
- Megan Lemay, Thanks for the Compliment, But I'm Not a Nurse
- Megan Lemay, Thanks for the Compliment, But I'm Not a Nurse
New York Times: Dena Rifkin, A Holiday From Illness, All Too Fleeting
Obstetrics and Gynecology: Asima Ahmad, Noor
Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine:
- Sarah Canavan, Yellow Ooze
- Marc Rothman, The Apology
- Maya Salameh, Beyond the White Coat Ceremony
Global Health Scholars' Publications
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Please visit the Office of Global Health website for a list of publications by our Global Health Scholars.
Press Featuring the Writers' Workshop
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In 2006, Drs. Anna Reisman, Helena Hansen, and Asghar Rastegar published an article about the workshop in the Journal of General Internal Medicine entitled "The Craft of Writing: A Physician-Writer's Workshop for Resident Physicians."
- Newsweek: The Writer Will See You Now
- Reuters: Creative Writing May Make Doctors Better
- The New Journal at Yale, April 2007: Body of Work
- Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog
- Reporting on Health blog, 2011: Why Health Care Professionals Should Write
- The Hartford Courant, December 2007: Surgeon Takes A Scalpel To Words - Dr. Richard Selzer Meditates On Writing And Mortality
- The Beeson Beat, October 2014: From Patient to Page: The Yale Writers' Workshop
Yale Medicine
- Summer 2004: An Author and Physician Helps Residents Become Better Doctors Through Writing
- Winter 2012: Writers' Workshop celebrates 10 Years
- Spring 2013: Writing and medicine
- Winter 2014: Adding to the physician's skill set: writing for the public
- Autumn 2016: At the Writers' Workshop, "medicine as a human act"