By Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) The Harvard Business Review article “To Be Happier at Work, Invest More in Your Relationships” recently floated to the top of my twitter feed. The post made me reflect on the […]
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Category: Anthropology
A day (or two) as an anthropologist
Editor’s note: In January 2019, we published a research project “Identifying and Transmitting the Culture of Emergency Medicine Through Simulation”. I highlighted some of the theory behind this work in an earlier post you can […]
Simulation and Cultural Compression
By Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) Throughout medical school, students learn an inconceivable amount of new knowledge around pathophysiology and treatment of medical conditions. A parallel and powerful cultural learning process simultaneously takes place. Eventually, medical students […]
Embracing Messiness in Medicine, Research, and Ourselves
By Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) To begin to appreciate biomedicine as its own culture, we must appreciate alternate ways of knowing. As individuals we become indoctrinated into either biomedicine or the social sciences and we are […]
An overdue rant on “pimping toxic quizzing”
By Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) In a previous post, I promised to come back to a rant on the word “pimping toxic quizzing”. So here we are, better late than never. Simply stated, the term must […]