Kamna Balhara and Nathan Irvin - on the health humanities in emergency medicine

Join us in our conversation with Nathan Irvin and Kamna Balhara, both physicians and professors in the Emergency Medicine Department here at Johns Hopkins. In this episode, we hear about the phenomenal work that these two are doing spearheading Health Humanities at Hopkins Emergency Medicine (H3EM). In particular, we discuss why humanities are vital for physicians working at the “front door of the hospital” (the emergency room), which exists at the nexus of the hospital and the community, and the nexus of society and health. Thanks for listening! 

RESOURCES AND PEOPLE MENTIONED  

Drawing Blood podcast episode, “Morphine Addiction, Decadence & Degeneration, and Fin-de-Siècle Paris” 
To see some winners of the creative arts submission competition, go here and here. 
Tendon, the literary and visual arts magazine from the Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine 
Health Humanities Fellowship 
RACE Conference (Reparative Arts and Community Engagement), October 5 – 8, 2023 
Dr. Jeremy Greene 
Latoya Ruby Frazier 
Kondwani Fidel 
Devin Allen 
Dr. Gabor David Kelen 
Medicine, Science, and the Humanities Program 
Beth Macy, Dopesick