First Ever Medical Humanities Chat (#MedHumChat)

Hey#medtwitter, I'm toying with the idea of starting a narrative medicine twitter chat. each week we discuss a poem, essay, short story (something very brief!) relevant to medicine and our experience. Would folks be interested? Would you participate? Does this already exist?— Colleen Farrell, MD (@colleenmfarrell)December 16, 2018by Christian Sinclair (@ctsinclair)What started off as a spontaneous tweet by resident Colleen Farrell, MD (@colleenmfarrell) generated a swell of interest from the health care Twitter community and now is being fully realized with the first Medical Humanities chat on Twitter (#MedHumChat) starting tonight January 2, 2019 at 9pm ET.While not directly focused on our field, we know many hospice and palliative care clinicians have a deep appreciation and connection to the humanities and thought this chat would be of significant interest to the Pallimed online community. We know how hard it is to get Twitter chats started and sustained, and since this chat occupies the same time frame as the old weekly #hpm chats, many of you may be looking for something to fill that gap we left open back in 2017.Dr. Farrell was kind enough to answer some questions about the chat below.------------CTS: What key reasons make the humanities are important in training of clinicians?CMF: Oh so many reasons! My organic chemistry professor in college (David Richardson at Williams) urged me to take classes to “understand the human condition.” (I ended up no stickin...
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