Thank you Natalie Lago, Michelle Ray, and many others for tuning into my live video with Istiaq Mian, MD yesterday.
Istiaq Mian Bio:
Dr. Istiaq Mian is a hospitalist (an internal medicine physician who works exclusively in the hospital) in Madison, Wisconsin. His Substack, The Substaq of Istiaq, explores narrative medicine through memoir and essays about what it means to care for people at the most vulnerable moments of their lives. His essays have also appeared in the New York Times.
Before medical school, Istiaq spent a year as an AmeriCorps volunteer at Joseph’s House, a hospice in Washington D.C. for homeless men and women dying of HIV/AIDS. That experience shaped everything that came after, and it’s the subject of a memoir he’s been writing for years.
