Ars Medica

On Standing at Keats’ Grave, Rome, Italy, August 29, 2024

Allison Crawford — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Hospital Fugue

Jenny Li — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Music is everywhere around us, waiting for us to notice. The sounds of the hospital are like a fugue, a musical form involving multiple interwoven melodies.

Frictions of Futurity, Curative Tensions, and Artistic Re-imaginings of Transplantation

Suze Berkhout, Kelly Fritsch; Chloe Wong-Mersereau — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0800

Dear Angelo

LJ Prance — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0800

Dear Angelo

By LJ Prance

Edited by Fraser Allen Best

"Dear Angelo" is one of many stories of my transplant trip. I like to think of it as a conversation I may have had with my donor.

I chose the name "Angelo" as both a metaphor and a homage to a friend.

- dhanyavaad

Conversations with Dr. Rowena Spencer

Charles Fishkin — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Rowena Spencer (1922-2014) was one of the first women in the country—if not the first—to specialize in pediatric surgery. She was born in Shreveport Louisiana and was the daughter of an orthopedic surgeon. She received her medical degree from Johns Hopkins (1947). She continued her training as an intern is surgery at Johns Hopkins (1947-48); a surgical resident at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (1948-49); and an assistant in surgery at Tulane University (1949-50). She then held residencies in pediatrics and surgery at Louisiana State University (1950-53. She pursued additional specialized training in pediatric surgery at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm (1954). She joined the faculty at Louisiana State University while completing her surgical residency (1952). She remained at LSU until 1968. She retired from surgery in 1984. During her last several years, she shared her thoughts about her career and the early years of pediatric surgery. Her conversations provide examples of her distinctive way of speaking—both formal and precise yet she also self-deprecatory and spontaneous.