
The Clinic & The Person
The Clinic and The Person is a podcast developed to summon or quicken the attention of health care professionals, their educators, researchers and others to the interests and plights of people with specific health problems aided through knowledge and perspectives the humanities provide. We are guided by how physician-writer Iona Heath sees the arts adding a view to biomedicine “that falls from a slightly different direction revealing subtly different detail” and how that view applies to particular health care situations. Our aim is to surface these views, and our desire is to present them in ways that encourage and enable health care professionals to fully engage, to consider all sources, not just biomedical, in their roles helping people with their particular health problems.
“The Clinic” represents all that Biomedicine brings to bear on disease processes and treatment protocols, and “The Person,” represents all that people experience from health problems. Our episodes draw from works in the humanities—any genre—that relate directly to how people are affected by specific clinical events such as migraine headaches, epileptic seizures, and dementia, and by specific health care situations such as restricted access to care and gut-wrenching, life and death choices. We analyze and interpret featured works and provide thoughts on how they apply in patient care and support; health professions education; clinical and population research; health care policy; and social and cultural influences and reactions.
Episodes
Consumptive Heroines: Opera and TB with Drs Linda and Michael Hutcheon

Painting an Ideal: Luke Fildes’ The Doctor with Hannah Darvin

“We Give Up Living, Just to Keep Alive”: Three Essayists on Health Care Decisions

Heal Me: Childhood Trauma in The Who’s Tommy with Dr. Anthony Tobia

Illness as Exile in the Greek Tragedy Philoctetes with Paul Ranelli

“No Escape from Reality:” Thomas Kuhn and the Reliability of Medical Knowledge

“I’m Filled with Desire”: Eros & Illness with David B. Morris

Andrew Leland’s Country of the Blind: It’s the Same World

What Desire Will Shape a World We’re Left?: Poet Micheal O’Siadhail on Covid

AIDS in the Comics: The Graphic Memoir Taking Turns with MK Czerwiec

Life Imitates Art: Covid-19 Edition

Painting with Empathy: The Expressionist Art of Edvard Munch with Curator Øystein Ustvedt

Reconciliation and Denial: Two Elements of Family Dementia Stories

He Wants to Itch at It: A Novel, Play, and Movie Imagining Dementia

When Neurons Get Tied Up in Knots: Human Fallibility and Folly in Asylum Psychiatry

The Dose Makes the Poison: Two Novels, Two Poisons, Two Emergency Medicine Physicians

If Pain Were Coupled with Light: The Novel The Illumination with Dr. Ron Boeding

How Terrible it Was: Three Takes on the AIDS Crisis with Dr. Ross Slotten

Getting Dopesick: Four Angles on the Opioid Crisis

A Lifespan the Length of a Dog’s: Illness as Loss in the Novel So Much For That

I Hold You Still?: Poet Micheal O’Siadhail Explains Parkinson’s Disease in Sonnets

Beautifier or Destroyer: Tuberculosis in Two Paintings

Six Kopeks or Your Life: Two Short Stories about Health Care Professionalism and Access

Sweet Sand of Time: James Dickey’s poem Diabetes with Guest Dr. Jack Coulehan

When the Bolt Touches Flesh: Living with Epileptic Seizures
