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 […]
By: Eve Purdy 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 taught […]
By: Eve Purdy 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 go. […]
By: Eve Purdy I just moved to Australia for an education fellowship and to work on research in the anthropology of trauma care provision. So far so good. I quickly became accustomed to the fact […]
The Ritual By: Eve Purdy Editor’s note: As a disclaimer, I am not a surgical resident and have lived the experience in the OR only as an outsider as both a medical student and off-service […]
