Published On November 10, 2016
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Podcast: The Story Prescription
Health Story Collaborative explores the value of letting patients talk about their illnesses. Also: how terrorist attacks affect us.
Terrorist attacks are intended to spread fear, and psychologists have tried to study how these events affect mental health. Psychologist Samuel J. Sinclair talks about his Terrorism Catastrophizing Scale, a tool that may help explain why some people make drastic changes in their routines and attitudes after a terror attack.
And internist Annie Brewster joins the podcast from Health Story Collaborative. Since 2010 Brewster has recorded doctors, patients and caregivers at Massachusetts General Hospital and shared the stories they tell. Just the act of storytelling, says Brewster, gives patients an “authentic, meaningful and ultimately healing” way to process an illness. She shares powerful excerpts from those recordings on the program.
Terrorism
Dispatches
Too Much of a Good Thing Exercise is usually healthy. But taken to an extreme, can it put the heart in peril?
Higher Education Medical marijuana has swept the country, but physicians aren’t trained how to use it.
Homegrown Kayse Shrum is launching the first U.S. medical school affiliated with a Native American tribe—part of a strategy to train doctors where they’re needed most.
Out of Pediatric Care, Into…? For young people with chronic illnesses, the transition into adult care can be uncharted—and dangerous—territory.
Beyond Cold Storage A metabolic slowdown would press pause on the body until surgeons can repair damage. How close is it to becoming a reality?
Riding a Wave of Sound One way to get drugs through the blood-brain barrier: smuggle them across using sound waves.
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