
cultural divide
Dec. 8, 2020The DO Book Club, December 2020: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Anne Fadiman tells the tragic story of a cultural conflict between a Hmong immigrant family and a team of American physicians.
Anne Fadiman tells the tragic story of a cultural conflict between a Hmong immigrant family and a team of American physicians.
In 2014, Eula Biss wrote about how cultural perceptions of immunity inform the general public’s outlook on personal responsibility. In 2020, her words resonate strongly.
Emergency physician Michele Harper, MD, writes candidly about systemic racism and gender bias in the health care system through the lens of her own experience.
Kyle Bradford Jones, MD, opens up about his struggles with depression and anxiety while advocating for the destigmatization of physicians seeking help when facing their own mental health struggles.
Henrietta Lacks’ cells sparked a medical science revolution and a multi-million dollar industry, but her family was kept out of the loop.
Traumatic stress expert Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, discusses his lifelong research on psychosocial trauma. His insights have surprising parallels to osteopathic medicine.
Dr. John Snow’s discovery that bacteria-contaminated water caused cholera saved countless 19th-century Londoners and changed public health forever.
Adam Kay, a former resident physician who is now a comedy writer, published a diary describing all the highs and lows of his six years working in NHS labor wards.