Recent Publications

• 2024

  A tripartite taxonomy of character strengths & virtues: toward professional identity formation in medical students & physicians
  Stephen G. Post, Maria A. Basile, Richard J. Iuli, Phyllis Migdal, Jeffrey S. Trilling, Andrew Wackett, & Lisa Strano-Paul

  The Impact of COVID-19 Service Learning on Medical Student Professional Identify Formation
  Wei-Hsin Lu, Lindsy Pang, & Lisa Strano-Paul

  Dr. Mary Edwards Walker: A trailblazer for female surgeons
  Shabnam Parsa, Leshya Bokka, & Liam Butchart

  Cultivating compassion in medicine: a toolkit for medical students to improve self-kindness and enhance clinical care
  Krisha K. Mehta, Shafkat Salam, Austin Hake, Rebecca Jennings, Afra Rahman, & Stephen G. Post

  Lucidity in the Deeply Forgetful: A Scoping Review
  Ross JP, Post SG, Schienfeld L

  Out of Touch
  Salvatore Mangione, MD, Maria Basile, MD, MBA, Stephen G. Post, PhD

• 2023

  Hajj
  Richard Bronson, MD

  Narrative Medicine Theory and Practice: the Double Helix Model
  Liam Butchart, MD, MA & Shabnam Parsa

  Kindness: Definitions and a pilot study for the development of a kindness scale in healthcare
  Austin B. Hake, MD, MA & Stephen G. Post, PhD

  Cluster B Nos (B is for Bad)
  HARMONY Magazine, 2023
  PDF pg. 79
  Alexander Hoogland, MD

  Wounded healer
  Brandon Muncan

• 2022

  In a Corner of the Cavernous Ward
  Richard Bronson

  Inpatient Care Team Views on Child Life Services: A Scoping Review
  Brandon J. Wong, Rebekah Jihae Lee, Jamie Saragossi, Stephen G. Post & Taly Glaubach

  Pediatric Schwartz Rounds: Influencing Provider Insights and Emotional Connectedness
  Rina Meyer, Wei-Hsin Lu, Stephen G. Post & Latha Chandran

  Joining Humanity and Science: Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics in Medical Education
  Stephen G. Post & Susan W. Wentz

  An Innovative Program Using Magic to Provide Early Clinical Experiences for Preclinical Medical Students: Goals, Experiences, and Results of the MagicAid Program
  Harrison D. Pravder, David J. Elkin, Stephen G. Post & Maribeth B. Chitkara

• 2021

  Illumination
  Richard Bronson, MD
  

  Different approach to medical decision-making in difficult circumstances: Kittay's Ethics of Care
  Liam Butchart, Kristin Krumenacker, & Aymen Baig
  

  How should we ration care during the COVID-19 pandemic?
  Liam Butchart, Kristin Krumenacker, & Aymen Baig
  

  The Call of the Wild and COVID-19
  Liam Butchart & Samantha Rizzo
  

  On the Status of Rights 
  Liam Butchart
  

  Taoism, bioethics, and the COVID-19 pandemic
  Liam Butchart
  

  Transposing the Adverse Social Dynamics of Adolescent Substance Use Disorders Into More Effective Treatment and Clinician Resilience
  Matthew T. Lee, PhD, Stephen G. Post, PhD, Andrew B. Wylie, BA, George S. Leibowitz, MSW PhD, Chelsea Gelboin-Burkhart, BA, Dishaw Holiprosad, BS, Byron R. Johnson, PhD, Aaron B. Turk, BA, Kevin L. Zacharoff, MD FACPE FACIP FAAP, and Nur Zakirkhodjaev, MD
  

  Cardiac surgeons' perspectives and practices regarding people who use drugs: A scoping review
  Brandon Muncan, BA, Esther K. Kim, BA, Andrea Amabile, MD, Melissa B. Weimer DO, MCR, Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako, MD, MS, Prashanth Vallabhajosyula, MD, MS, Andreas P. Kalogeropoulos, MD, MPH, PHD, Arnar Geirsson, MD
  

  Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People 
  Stephen Post, PhD
  

  Parenting Pediatric Residents
  Susan Walker, MD
  

  A Perspective from the Field: How Can We Empower the Next Generation of Physician to Heal the Opioid Epidemic?
  Andrew Wylie, MD & Kevin Zacharoff, MD
  

• 2020

  Doctors Unbound 
  Richard Bronson, MD
  

  Penumbra 
  Richard Bronson, MD
  

  She Won't Be Back 
  Richard Bronson, MD
  

  Prayer to St. Roch, patron of plague sufferers
  Jack Coulehan, MD

  We should address residential relocation to improve patient care
  Albert Fernandez, MD, Timothy R. Rice, MD & Stephen G. Post, PhD

  Emily, Usher, and American Gothic perspectives on mortality
  Olga Reykhart & Liam Butchart

  The Pandemic Should Change the Way We Talk About Dying
  Joel Rowe, MD
  

• 2019

  My Mother's Incidentaloma
  Richard Bronson, MD
  

  Camus, Meursault, and the Biopsychosocial Model
  Liam Butchart
  

  Developing "a Way of Being": Deliberate Approaches to Professional Identity Formation in Medical Education
  Latha Chandran, MD; Richard Iuli, PhD; Lisa Strano-Paul, MD; & Stephen G. Post, PhD
  

  Coulehan J. The Word Is an Instrument of Healing.  In Lindstrom R, Wojtowicz A. (Eds.) Perspectives of Human Language and Communication, Hobart, University of Tasmania Press, 2019

  Coulehan J Review of Asperger’s Children: Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna, The Pharos, winter 2019, pp. 49-51.

  Poems:
  “The Garden of Endurance,” JAMA. 2019; 321(1):109-109
  “The Persistence of Metaphor,” JAMA. 2019; 321(3):311-311.
  “The War of All Against All,” JAMA. 2019; 321(11):1108-1108.
  “First Blood,” Ann Intern Med. 2019; 171(2):152
  “The Egyptian Goddess,” Ann Intern Med. 2019; 170(6):422
  “Reflection,” Ann Intern Med. 2019; 170(5):348
  “Chemical Sensitivity,” Ann Intern Med. 2019; 170(5):349.
  “Automotive,” Ann Intern Med. 2019; 170(5):348.
  “The Talking Cure,” Ann Intern Med. 2019; 170(1):73.
  “The Origin of Light,” Rattle, www.rattle.com (July 16, 2019)

  John L. Coulehan, MD, MPH

  The Patient as Professor: How My Life as a Person with Quadriplegia Shaped My Thinking as an Ethicist
  Brooke Ellison, PhD
  

  Transposing the Adverse Social Dynamics of Adolescent Substance Use Disorders Into More Effective Treatment and Clinican Resilience
  Matthew T. Lee, PhD & Stephen G. Post, PhD

  Needs assessment for a formal emergency medicine residency program in southern Madagascar
  Gretchen Mockler, MD
  

  Faith, neuroscience, and "the thorn" in Paul's side: Abrahamic interpretations of epilepsy
  Christina Perri
  

  Alzheimer's: Ethical Questions and Answers from Diagnosis to Dying 
  Two Roads Diverge: Assisted Suicide in Alzheimer's Disease for a Research Participant 
  Stephen G. Post, PhD
  

  A Magic Therapy Program to Alleviate Anxiety in Pediatric Inpatients
  Harrison D. Pravder, BA, Amanda Leng-Smith, BA, Andrew I. Brash, BA, David J. Elkin, MD, Michael Attard, MA, CCLS, Brooke Rose, MA, CCLS, Catherine R. Messina, PhD, and Maribeth B. Chitkara, MD
  

• 2018

  Taking Sides
  Richard Bronson, MD
  

  Medical Students' Exposure to the Humanities Correlates with Positive Personal Qualities and Reduced Burnout: A Multi-Institutional U.S. Survey
  Sal Mangione, MD
  

  The Art of Observation and the Observation of Art: Zagid in the Twenty-first Century
  Sal Mangione, MD & Gretchen Mockler, MD

  "Music & Memory" and improved swallowing in advanced dementia
  Stephen G. Post, PhD

  Trilling JS.  An Essay on the Patient-Physician Relationship and the Physician-Patient Impasse in Primary Care. Iron Magnolia.  W Arens & Mario B Mignone, Co-Editors.  Forum Italicum Publishing.  2018:176-84.
  Jeffrey Trilling, MD

• 2017

  On Viewing a Portrait by Otto Dix
  Richard Bronson, MD
  

  Doctor Dog
  Richard Bronson, MD
  

  Negative Capability and the Art of Medicine
  John Coulehan, MD

  Rx It’s Good to be Good (G2BG) 2017 Commentary: Prescribing Volunteerism for Health, Happiness, Resilience, and Longevity
  Stephen G. Post
  American Journal of Health Promotion
  Spring, 2017

   

• 2016

  San Antonio Summer ‘64
  Richard Bronson
  Medical Humanities
  September 28, 2016

  The Wound Dresser
  Jack Coulehan
  Poetry Collection
  June, 2016

  Review of Richard Bronson’s Passage
  Andrea Gordon
  Family Medicine
  June, 2016

  Interview at “The Brigham”
  Richard Bronson
  Poem
  Annals of Internal Medicine
  April 19, 2016

  Old Answers to New Questions
  Michael Roess
  Review of Ex Machina
  PsycCRITIQUES
  April 11, 2016

• 2015

  Updating the Argument for Permitting and Federally Funding Stem Cell Research
  Michael Roess
  Current Stem Cell Reports
  December, 2015

  On the road from Bethany
  Richard Bronson
  Canadian Medical Association Journal
  December 8, 2015

  Revised Recommendation from CMDh on Use of Valproate in Women is Ethically Incomplete and Neglects the Interests of Women
  Van McCrary
  Epilepsia
  2015. Vol 56(7), 1020-1022

  The Doctor Will See you Now
  Katrina Lynch
  Academic Medicine (Gold-Hope Tang, MD 2015 Humanism in Medicine Essay Contest Winner)

  Introducing the Humanities to All Health Related Fields
  Michael Roess
  Review Article
  PsycCRITIQUES
  June 8, 2015

  First-Degree Würde: A Means to What End?
  James Ninia
  Summer 2015

  Ebb Tide | Reading (firewalled)
  Richard Bronson
  Poem with reading
  Annals of Internal Medicine
  April 7th, 2015

  Ritual Male Infant Circumcision and Human Rights
  Alan Jacobs
  The American Journal of Bioethics
  February 12, 2015

• 2014

  The NET Program: How one community came together to meet the transportation needs of its cancer patients
  Linda Bily
  Oncology Issues, November-December, 2014

  Routine, empathic and compassionate patient care: definitions, development, obstacles, education and beneficiaries
  Post et al.
  Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
  September 29, 2014

  Found in the Street
  Richard Bronson
  Poem
  JAMA
  July 23/30, 2014

  A Guest at Communion
  Richard Bronson
  Poem
  The Pharos
  Summer 2014

  First Do No Harm
  Richard Bronson
  Poem
  Family Medicine
  June, 2014

  A delicate subject: The impact of cultural factors on neonatal and perinatal decision making
  Van McCrary (and Haley Green, MA graduate)
  Review Article
  Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
  June, 2014

  Pseudocyesis
  Richard Bronson
  Poem
  Family Medicine
  February, 2014

  Diminished Control and Unmet Expectations: Testing a Model of Adjustment to Unplanned Cesarean Delivery
  Marcie Lobel et. al.
  Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy
  January, 2014

• 2013

  Firedrake
  Richard Bronson
  Poem
  Canadian Medical Association Journal
  December 10, 2013

  House of the Sun
  Richard Bronson
  Poem
  Poetrybay
  Fall/Winter 2013

  Predicting birth outcomes: Together, mother and health care provider know best
  Marcie Lobel et. al.
  Research Article
  Journal of Psychosomatic Research
  August, 2013

  Transport to Bellevue
  Richard Bronson
  Poem
  The Pharos
  Fall 2013

  Frequency of private spiritual activity and cardiovascular risk in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative
  Stephen G. Post
  Annals of Epidemiology
  March, 2013

  While Moonlighting
  Richard Bronson
  Poem
  Family Medicine
  July, 2013

  His Gift To Me
  Richard Bronson
  Family Medicine
  March, 2013

  The Ethics of Circumcision of Male Infants
  Allan J. Jacobs
  January, 2013

  Brief Report: Stony Brook Guidelines on the Ethics of the Care of People with Autism and Their Families
  Stephen G. Post et. al
  Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  October 20, 2013

• 2012

  Testimony
  Richard Bronson
  Annals of Internal Medicine
  September 4, 2012
  A reading by Michael Lacombe can be found here

  Addiction and “Generation Me” : Narcissistic and Prosocial Behaviors of Adolescents with Substance Dependency Disorder in Comparison to Normative Adolescents
  Stephen G. Post et. all
  Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly
  April, 2012

  What's It Worth? Public Willingness to Pay to Avoid Mental Illnesses Compared With General Medical Illnesses
  Dylan Smith
  Psychiatric Services
  April 1, 2012

  Suffering, Hope, and Healing
  John Coulehan
  The Handbook of Pain and Palliative Care
  January, 2012

  Bursting with Danger and Music
  John Coulehan
  Plain View Press
  Book of Medical Poetry
  Spring 2012

  Adagio Ma Non Troppo
  Richard Bronson
  The Phraros
  Poem
  Winter 2012

  Reviews: Exploring Happiness & We're Not Leaving-9/11 Responders
  Stephen Post & Richard Bronson
  The Pharos
  Book Review
  Winter 2012

  “I Hope I'll Continue to Grow”-Rubrics and Reflective Writing in Medical Education
  John L. Coulehan
  Iris Granek
  Academic Medicine
  January 2012

  Minimally Invasive: poems on a life in surgery
  Maria Basile
  Book of Medical Poetry
  The Lives You Touch Publications
  January 2012

• 2011

  Compassionate care enhancement: benefits and outcomes
  Stephen Post
  The International Journal of Person Centered Medicine
  December 2011

  It’s good to be good: 2011 5th annual scientific report on health, happiness and helping others
  Stephen Post
  The International Journal of Person Centered Medicine
  December 2011

  Octet for Piccolino and Strings
  Richard Bronson
  Poem
  Long Island Quarterly
  Winter 2011

  Compassionate Care
  Journal of the Islamic Medical Association of North America
  Winter 2011

  Ode to an Everyman
  Richard Bronson
  Poem
  Annals of Internal Medicine
  November 15, 2011

  Moving Beyond Self Interest
  Stephanie Brown
  Oxford University Press
  2011

  Motives for Volunteering Are Associated With Mortality Risk in Older Adults
  Stephanie Brown
  Research Article
  Health Psychology
  August 15, 2011

  My Battle Against Gonorrhea
  John L. Coulehan
  Medical Humanities
  Annals of Internal Medicine
  August 2, 2011

  In the Laboratory of Dr. X
  Richard Bronson
  Poem
  The Pharos
  Summer 2011

  String Theory
  Richard Bronson
  Poem
  Canadian Medical Association Journal
  June 14, 2011

  A Gentle and Human Temper: Humility in Medicine
  John L. Coulehan
  Medical Humanities
  Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
  Spring, 2011

  Hubris
  Richard Bronson
  Poem
  Canadian Medical Association Journal
  March 28, 2011

  Belief
  Andrew Flescher
  Encyclopedia Entry
  Encyclopedia Entry of Religion and Film
  March 8, 2011

  Deep Hope: A Song Without Words
  John L. Coulehan
  Article
  Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
  January 26 2011

  Alcoholics Anonymous-Related Helping and the Helper Therapy Principle
  Stephen Post
  Article
  Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly
  January 19, 2011

• 2010

  Poetry Therapy
  John L. Coulehan
  Article
  Patient Education and Counseling
  November, 2010

  Long-term Cognitive Impairmentand Functional Disability Among Survivors of Severe Sepsis
  Dylan M. Smith
  Research Article
  The Journal of the American Medical Association
  October 27, 2010

  The White Snake League
  Richard Bronson
  Poem
  Poetry Bay
  Fall/Winter 2010

  Assisted reproductive technologies: Impact on neonatology and a call for reform
  S. Van McCrary
  Article
  Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
  Fall, 2010

  On Humility
  John L. Coulehan
  Article
  Annals of Internal Medicine
  August 3, 2010

  How My Uncle Broke His Back
  Richard Bronson
  Poem
  The Medical Journal of Australia
  July 19, 2010

  My Father's Silence
  Lynn Hallarman
  Medical Humanities
  Journal of Paliative Medicine
  July 17, 2010

  A Life Not Worth Living
  Richard Bronson
  Poem
  Canadian Medical Association Journal
  July, 2010

  At the New York Academy of Medicine
  Richard Bronson
  Poem
  Annals of Internal Medicine
  July 6, 2010

  Cod Liver Oil & Egg Nogs
  Richard Bronson
  Annals of Internal Medicine
  June 1, 2010

  Small Area Variations in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Does the Neighborhood Matter?
  Carla Keirns & Dylan Smith
  Annals of Internal Medicine
  June 1, 2010

  Review of Richard Bronson's Silent Music
  J. R. Turek
  Book Review/Mark Quarterly Review
  June, 2010

  Review of Richard Bronson's Silent Music
  Mark Frutkin
  Book Review/CMAJ
  2010

  Therapeutic Privilege
  S. Van McCrary
  Poem
  Journal of Clinical Ethics
  Spring, 2010

  William Carlos Williams circumcises Ernest Hemingway's first son
  John L. Coulehan
  Poem
  Canadian Medical Association Journal
  March 15, 2010

  Humanism, Posthumanism, and Compassionate Love
  Stephen Post
  Article
  Technology in Society
  March, 2010

  Teaching Dr. Hiram Winfield How to Practice
  John L. Coulehan
  Medical Humanities
  Patient Education and Counseling
  March, 2010

  On Compassion and Being Human
  Stephen Post
  Interview
  The Brook
  January, 2010

• 2009

  Prayer in the cathedral
  Richard A. Bronson
  Poem
  Medical Journal of Australia
  December, 2009

  Asthma Mitigation Strategies: Professoinal, Charitable, and Community Coalitions
  Carla Keirns
  Scientific Paper
  American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  December, 2009

  Dying of a Treatable Disease
  Carla Keirns
  Article
  Health Affairs
  November/December 2009

  Incident at a Chinese Restaurant
  John L. Coulehan
  Medical Humanities
  Journal of General Internal Medicine
  November 7, 2009

  The Dinner Party
  Richard Bronson
  Poem
  Long Island Quarterly
  Winter, 2009

  Compassionate Solidarity: suffering, poetry, and medicine
  John L. Coulehan
  Article
  Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
  Autumn, 2009

  Patient-Centered Care and Preference-Sensitive Decision Making
  Carla Keirns
  The Journal of the American Medical Association
  October 28, 2009

  The Case of the Proliferating Paradigms
  John L. Coulehan
  Article
  Qualitative Health Research
  October, 2009

  Physicians and Patients' Spirituality: The Perennial Collaboration of Medicine and Religion
  Stephen G. Post
  Op-ed
  Virtual Mentor-AMA
  October, 2009

  Dirty Blood
  Carla Keirns
  Case Study
  Hastings Center Report
  September-October, 2009

  Shingles Does It
  John L. Coulehan
  Medical Narrative
  Health Affairs
  September/October, 2009

  Transferring Emerging Neuroscience to the Clinical Ethics Bedside
  S. Van McCrary
  Review Article
  The American Journal of Bioethics©
  September, 2009

  "The Air Got to it:" Exploring a Belief About Surgery for Lung Cancer
  Carla Keirns
  Article
  The Journal of the National Medical Association
  August, 2009

  It's Good to be Good: Science Says it's So
  Stephen Post
  Article
  Health Progress
  July-August, 2009

  Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Users of County Health Centers and Users of Private Physician Practices
  Catherine R. Messina
  Research Article
  Public Health Reports
  July-August, 2009

  Neonatology and the Specter of the Law
  S. Van McCrary
  Article
  Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
  July, 2009

  Dinosaurs
  Maria A. Basile
  Poem
  The Journal of the American Medical Association
  May 6, 2009

  Smashed Pots
  John L. Coulehan
  Medical Humanities
  Annals of Internal Medicine
  May 5, 2009

  To Sylvia
  Maria A. Basile
  Poem
  Touch: the Journal of Healing
  May, 2009

  The Widower Surgeon's Lament
  Maria A. Basile
  Poem
  The Journal of the American Medical Association
  April 22/29, 2009

  Midnight Rain
  Maria A. Basile
  Poem
  The Journal of the American Medical Association
  March 25, 2009

  Medical Humanities and Their Discontents: Definitions, Critiques, and Implications
  John L. Coulehan
  Article
  Academic Medicine
  February, 2009

  What Kind of Guy?
  Richard A. Bronson
  Poem
  The Pharos
  Winter 2009

• 2008

  Germs, Vaccines, and the Rise of Allergy 
  Carla Keirns
  Book Chapter
  Crafting Immunity
  2008

  Worms
  John L. Coulehan
  Medical Humanities
  The Journal of the American Medical Association
  November 5, 2008

  Uninsured Adults Presenting to US Emergency Departments: Assumptions vs Data
  Carla Keirns
  Article
  The Journal of the American Medical Association
  October 22/29, 2008

  To His Violin
  Richard A. Bronson
  Poem
  Canadian Medical Association Journal
  October 21, 2008

  Ghazal
  John L. Coulehan
  Poem
  The Journal of the American Medical Association
  October 8, 2008

  Grackles
  John L. Coulehan
  Poem
  The Journal of the American Medical Association
  September 24, 2008

  Imperfect Knowledge
  Richard A. Bronson
  Poem
  Canadian Medical Association Journal
  September 9, 2008

  Zoster
  John L. Coulehan
  Poem
  The Journal of the American Medical Association
  September 3, 2008

  Father's Day
  Richard A. Bronson
  Poem
  The Medical Journal of Australia
  September 1, 2008

  The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review
  Richard A. Bronson
  Book Review
  The Pharos
  Autumn 2008

  Does Money Make Bioethics Go 'Round?
  Carla Keirns
  Article
  The American Journal of Bioethics
  August, 2008

  Saviors as Saints or Sinners?
  Peter C. Williams
  Editorial
  Pediatric Transplantation
  August, 2008

  Ethics of Using a Bone Marrow Doner with Klinefelter Syndrome
  Margaret McGovern
  Editorial
  Pediatric Transplantation
  August, 2008

  From the Emergency Department to Vital Statistics: Cause of Death Uncertain
  Carla Keirns
  Article
  The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
  August, 2008

  Doctors and Divination
  Carla Keirns
  Medical Humanities
  Academic Medicine
  July, 2008

  The Unintended Consequences of Training Residents in Dysfunctional Outpatient Settings
  Carla Keirns
  Article
  Academic Medicine
  May, 2008

  Minimally Invasive
  Maria A. Basile
  Poem
  The Journal of the American Medical Association
  January 23, 2008