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 (@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 […]
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 […]
By Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) 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 […]
By Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) Author’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 resident. […]
