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The Genesis of Illness Narrative Research
For 5 years, I have spent my Friday evenings volunteering with pediatric oncology patients at Mott Children’s Hospital. I admire these children, and their abilities to cope with their situations...
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Reflecting and Reframing: Becoming a .com site
The past month has been a flurry of wrapping up the semester and delving into the medical school application process, but I’ve also felt as though I was suspended within a strange state of liminality....
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Grand Rounds Conference: Introducing Illness Narrative Research to a Care Team
It was exciting to be in a room full of people who care about the same kids that I do. I was sandwiched between a talk about clinical procedures/research protocols and patient care deliberations; I was...
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Bioartography: Art Inherent in Science
Microscopic slides = masterpieces. Bioartography is a joint venture by scientists and artists across the University of Michigan campus. This program identifies the artistic nature of scientific studies...
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Invited to Present at the WMU Medical Humanities Conference
“The humanistic dimensions of medicine and health.” This is the phrase that first intrigued me about the Third Annual Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference‘s Call for Abstracts. I...
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Sharing the Clinical Relevance of Narrative at the UM Pediatrics Research...
Instead of numerical values and statistics, my poster shared the words and phrases of children with cancer. Amidst colorful posters with tables and graphs, my poster was adorned with drawings by...
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3/24/14: The day I turned in my Honors English Thesis
To be honest, this is probably the most important thing that I’ve done in my life. I know it sounds dramatic, but I can’t help but think that it’s true. I’ve been excited about writing a thesis since...
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Untold Stories, Unheard Lives: A Study of How Adolescents with Cancer Create...
Since the upcoming release of my book Chronicling Childhood Cancer: A Collection of Personal Stories by Children and Teens with Cancer is just around the corner (8 days!)– my thesis is available at...
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