A Symposium on the Art of Healing
How was your last experience at a conference? Did you attend a few presentations in which the language and material flew over your head?…
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Didactic Blocks Expressed as Poetry: Clinical Anatomy
For each issue of The Differential, our arts editor will write a piece in a specific poetic form that reflects the themes, material, pathologies,…
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Physician Assistant Student Highlight: Thomas Yang
In September, the interdisciplinary subsection of The Differential interviewed Jenn Greer, a student in The University of Arizona Master of Science for Entry to…
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Experiencing Touch in an Innovative Way
“I can feel just about every finger—it’s a really weird sensation,” Mr. Copeland said a month after surgery. Mr. Copeland’s regained ability to feel…
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Vitiligo: Is It a Big Deal?
Somewhere in an undiscovered margin or appendix of our medical textbooks, we will find a sentence or two on a disease called vitiligo. In…
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Doctoring While Female
Let’s all share a collective sigh of relief: we’ve reached Election Day. No matter which party you support, you’re likely feeling either exhausted, disgusted, or…
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Ready for the Robots?
When I was little, my concept of robots was deeply rooted in what I saw on TV: large hunks of metal roaming the streets, leaving…
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Medicine in Art History
Likely, all of us in middle school or high school had to take an art class—a drama class, band, or art class maybe. Believe it…
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Bench to Bedside: An Update on Stem Cell Research
The history of organ transplant and stem cell research is rich in optimism, yielding promising results from in vitro and animal model studies that…
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Writing Workshop III: The End of the World
For the third installment of the Writing Workshop series, I am using the same prompt that was featured previously in Sara Pousti’s piece, “How…
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