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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · 7d

I sat down with @vinayakjain.bsky.social & Kayla Zamanian to talk about our new piece in @jama.com & why the humanities & social sciences are fundamental to health research and innovation.

Check out the article:
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The New Clinician Scholars: A Q&A with Vinayak Jain and Kayla Zamanian

Why the intersection of medicine & the humanities produces better research, better healthcare, and better thinking

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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · 13d

I can't believe acetaminophen is main character right now

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The BMJ @bmj.com · May 21

"Let's boil this down: AI for back office and admin tasks? Yes. AI for diagnostics and training? Perhaps, but we need to understand the impact on patient care."

@kamranabbasi.bsky.social on the future of medicine
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Chenoa @chenoamarie.bsky.social · 19d

This is great! Looking forward to reading.
Bridging this gap is what Indigenous scholars have been advocating for decades: calling for recognition of the value and legitimacy of bridging methodologies across disciplines AND worldviews to answer complex health questions.

Vinayak Jain @vinayakjain.bsky.social · 19d

Medicine has largely underutilized the power of humanities to advance scientific research.

In our piece, physician/historian @thelakshmik.bsky.social, @hls.harvard.edu student Kayla Z & I describe how this methodological bridging can strengthen scientific enquiry.

(1/4) #MedSky

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Mariola Marrero @mariolamarrero.bsky.social · 15d

Mira por donde, siempre he pensado que soy un bicho raro y resulta que ahora sale en el JAMA que no es tan malo ser de ciencias y letras a la vez, cuando te dedicas a la medicina

Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · 15d

Excited to share our @jama.com Viewpoint on dual-trained clinician-scholars in medicine & humanities.

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#medicalhumanities #healthhumanities

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Dual Training in Medicine and Humanities Drives Health Research Innovation

This Viewpoint explores how training in both the medical and health humanities complements biomedical research, expanding clinician-scholars’ understanding of human health.

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Alix Seif, MD @alixseif.bsky.social · 15d

Sure, I’m biased, but it’s amazing how often my Linguistics background is relevant or adds context.

Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · 15d

Excited to share our @jama.com Viewpoint on dual-trained clinician-scholars in medicine & humanities.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

#medicalhumanities #healthhumanities

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Dual Training in Medicine and Humanities Drives Health Research Innovation

This Viewpoint explores how training in both the medical and health humanities complements biomedical research, expanding clinician-scholars’ understanding of human health.

jamanetwork.com

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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · 15d

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Working with the Medical Humanities Initiative has been one of the highlights during my time as a resident - Medical Humanities

The Medical Humanities Initiative has been the highlight of Ella Castanier's academic experience at Georgetown.

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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · 15d

This project was extra special as I got to work with two brilliant alums of Georgetown's Medical Humanities Initiative @vinayakjain.bsky.social (now a pulm fellow and MedHum rising star) & Kayla Zamanian (now a law student). Enjoyable, and mind expanding from start to finish. Thank you both.

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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · 15d

Note: "Clinician-scholar" often means MD / DO + biomedical training. We're arguing for expansion: clinician + humanities as a vital formation. As someone who was a humanist before becoming a physician, I see & am grateful for the many humanists who've done foundational work on health campuses.

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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · 15d

AI overlords, waning public trust, and funding/information outages demand we reimagine medical research. We NEED the interpretive skills, historical perspective & structural / contextual analysis humanities bring. Humanists are the OG translational scholars.

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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · 15d

Excited to share our @jama.com Viewpoint on dual-trained clinician-scholars in medicine & humanities.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

#medicalhumanities #healthhumanities

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Dual Training in Medicine and Humanities Drives Health Research Innovation

This Viewpoint explores how training in both the medical and health humanities complements biomedical research, expanding clinician-scholars’ understanding of human health.

jamanetwork.com

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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · 19d

Always a treat to have @profgoldberg.bsky.social's take!

Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 19d

I am SO excited for this piece especially because it dramatically breaks with the “enrichment” model of #HealthHumanities.

The studia humanitatis have always been about rigorous research and scholarship - the humanists were early translational researchers!

Can’t wait to dig in.

Vinayak Jain @vinayakjain.bsky.social · 19d

Medicine has largely underutilized the power of humanities to advance scientific research.

In our piece, physician/historian @thelakshmik.bsky.social, @hls.harvard.edu student Kayla Z & I describe how this methodological bridging can strengthen scientific enquiry.

(1/4) #MedSky

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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · Sep 1

Masks serve both power & resistance. ICE agents mask to avoid accountability or, if we take them at face value, protect themselves. Protesters mask to subvert surveillance. We wear them voluntarily & through compulsion. We hide behind masks, we survive through masks.
My latest: tinyurl.com/vpyfdzjs

Face Value

The Mask as Symbol from COVID-19 to ICE raids

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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · Aug 13

A thing that is good and safe and wholesome and fair in a world that is anything but

Cannot bear the news but popping onto the sky of blue to say:
donate to DCPL here

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Vinayak Jain @vinayakjain.bsky.social · Jul 27

As always, @thelakshmik.bsky.social blows my mind with her excellent analysis. Perfect example of how #histmed & #medhum impact health policy (& culture) today.

Checkout her latest post: drlakshmikrishnan.substack.com/p/there-once...

There once was a dream that was the NHS

On watching Michael Sheen play Aneurin Bevan, and reflections on universal healthcare during an American crisis

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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · Jul 31

🥹 too kind

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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · Jun 20

Vaccine skepticism used to be more grassroots; it's now fortified with federal power. Check out my new post on RFK’s clean sweep.

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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · Jun 18

IT'S OUT!

Dana A Williams @danaawilliamsink.bsky.social · May 9

Look what’s coming soon 👀…. Official publication date, June 17 | Amistad Press

#ToniAtRandom #ToniMorrison #DanaAWilliams #LiteraryLegacy #BlackEditorsMatter #ComingSoon #AmistadBooks #BlackLiterature #PublishingHistory

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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · Jun 11

"Don't pick up your binoculars 🦅 unless you know what you're looking at."

What watching THE RESIDENCE revealed abt the connections between birdwatching, microscopes, & medicine -- & what we do with our attention

My first Substack is live! Please read & subscribe to The Workup

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"Don’t Pick Up Your Binoculars Unless You Know What You’re Looking At”

A detective walks into the White House and immediately tells everyone they’re wrong about everything.

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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · Apr 21

🔄 Our socioecological framework reveals how multi-level factors shape diagnostic journeys and identifies new pathways to diagnostic health equity!

#DiagnosticEquity #HealthDisparities

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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · Apr 21

📊 Our new paper introduces the "diagnostic environment" model:

🌫️ Atmospheric: Societal factors
👥 Surface: Healthcare interactions
🔍 Subterranean: Hidden structures / norms

Now out in #BMJOpenQuality @bmj.com! ⬇️
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Roads diverge: mapping the journey towards diagnostic health equity

Background Diagnostic disparities significantly impact health outcomes, with various factors influencing differential access and treatment across communities. This paper explores the complex landscape...

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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · Apr 1

Just published! 📊 Thrilled to see our findings from the @nationalacademies.org workshop on "Advancing Equity in Diagnostic Excellence to Reduce Health Disparities" now available. Download the proceedings brief: nap.edu/28573 #HealthEquity #DiagnosticExcellence

Advancing Equity in Diagnostic Excellence to Reduce Health Disparities: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief

Read online, download a free PDF.

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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · Feb 13

Quieting the noise for a sec to spotlight a colleague, wise woman, scholar-leader par excellence, a very great writer and an even better friend @danaawilliams.bsky.social. Pre-order Toni at Random NOW!

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Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship

Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship [Williams, Dana A.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship

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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · Feb 3

Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

- Joy Harjo, Perhaps The World Ends Here

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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · Feb 3

Join us Monday, Feb. 10, 3:00 PM - Annual Carlton Haywood, Jr, PhD Memorial Symposium. Keynote - Keith Wailoo, PhD, "Sickle Cell Disease – A History of Peril and Progress" - w panel Lydia Pecker, Yoram Unguru, Teonna Woolford. Open to all. Link for free registration: mailchi.mp/jhu/registra...

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