Shows
Pulse VoicesOur Town (Chinese Spoken)--Jan QiuAfter ten years in the US, a Chinese immigrant finally finds a doctor who puts her at ease.2024-07-0522 min
Pulse VoicesChameleon--Teresa Y. RobersonAs a five-year-old, on her first day of kindergarden, the author was asked, "Are you Black or white?"2024-06-2923 min
Pulse VoicesA Weird Fit for Medicine--Nicole DamariFront-page headlines can leave a queer physician feeling alone.2024-06-2131 min
Pulse VoicesA Real Family?--Anne JacobsonAfter many tries at a fertility clinic, a physician and her husband decide to change course.2024-06-1427 min
Pulse VoicesComing Clean--Alisa DuranA physician keeps quiet about her past as her patient struggles with alcoholism. (Story: 1:38; Q&A: 10:12)2024-06-0824 min
Pulse VoicesSoon--Stacy NigliazzoAn emergency room nurse tries desperately to keep up. (Story: 1:54; Q&A: 9:53)2024-05-3122 min
Pulse VoicesTwo Timelines--Debi SantiniAn Air Force veteran develops bad neck pain and calls his doctor. His wife recounts what happens next. (Story: 1:57; Q&A: 14:15)2024-05-2428 min
Pulse VoicesBlack and White--Scott JanssenLoud music interrupts a family in mourning and sparks a racially charged confrontation. (Story: 1:32; Q&A: 8:15)2024-05-1727 min
Pulse VoicesEveryone Has a Story--Destiney KirbyA medical student shares a special bond with another person--not a classmate, but a patient. (Story at 1:35; Q&A at 11:00.) 2024-05-1022 min
Pulse VoicesA Day in the Life of a Psychiatrically Hospitalized Clinician--Liat KatzI am a licensed clinical social worker. And, occasionally, a mental patient. Today, in this inpatient psychiatric unit, I am more a patient than a social worker.2024-05-0329 min
Pulse VoicesBorderlines--Joo-Inn ChewA physician can relate to a self-harming teenager--and has the scars to prove it.2024-04-2625 min
Pulse VoicesToo Everything to Fit In--Zainab JimohA student's hijab, skin color and gender have set her apart ever since a sixth-grade classmate asked, "Where were you on 9/11?"2024-04-1923 min
Pulse VoicesTruth in Translation--N.Y. (Nora) SunAn eight-year-old granddaughter helps her Chinese grandfather deflect a doctor's nosy questions.2024-04-1221 min
Pulse VoicesStigmata--Kevin KooA medical student sees something in the OR--and wishes he could speak up.2024-04-0524 min
The Art of Medicine with Dr. Andrew WilnerThe Art of Medicine, Episode #12, How to Practice the Medical ArtsDr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks!Recorded April 18, 2020 Many thanks to Paul Gross, MD, a family practice physician and Editor-in-Chief of “Pulse.” Pulse is an online, weekly publication that addresses the medical humanities through works of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and photography. The journal's full name is “Pulse Voices from the Heart of Medicine,” and it appears at www.pulsevoices.org. Dr. Gross started the magazine because of the disconnect between the science he learned in medical school and its application to real patients. He discovered that writing ab...2020-07-2628 min