Archive: Daniel Marchalik
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“Progress and nostalgia in A Visit from the Goon Squad”
Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Ann Jurecic write about the tension between yearning for the future and nostalgia for the past in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, and how that tension plays out in medicine.
Category: Scholarship
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The Hoya Covers the Development of the Medical Humanities Major
The Hoya introduces the future Medical Humanities major, expected to possibly launch in coming years, mentioning the Spring 2020 courses, and Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Daniel Marchalik’s vision for the Medical Humanities at Georgetown University.
Category: Media
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“Physicians, Oaths, and Vampires”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Daniel Marchalik analyze John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819). They assess the power of oaths, looking at the physicians’ burnout derived from the Hippocratic Oath.
Category: Scholarship
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“The Impact of Non-Medical Reading on Clinician Burnout: A National Survey of Palliative Care Providers”
The team of researchers that includes Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Dr. Hunter Groninger studies the impact of non-medical reading on burnout in hospice and palliative care physicians. They suggest that reading non-medical literature on a consistent basis may be associated with a significantly decreased likelihood of burnout.
Category: Scholarship
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“Institutional Madness: Shakespeare as Hospital Survival Guide”
Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Arthur Frank look at how Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure might offer comfort and companionship for patients facing the institutional madness of hospitals, seen as kingdoms ruled by bizarre or irrational rules.
Category: Scholarship
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“Physician Burnout in the Modern Era”
Dr. Daniel Marchalik looks at physicians’ professional stress through a historical lens. By examining different historical moments —from 19th century accounts of the “distinguished success” to “scandalous misconduct” of medical apprentices, to the 1970s advances in our understanding of burnout—, he considers the effects of the new wave of modernization on physicians.
Category: Scholarship
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Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Dr. Hunter Groninger on Beyond Burnout–The Healing Power of Fiction
On February 6 2019, Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Dr. Hunter Groninger spoke at the University of Virginia’s Medical Center Hour about emerging research on books’ benefits for doctors and trace their own experience with the Literature and Medicine Track at the Georgetown University School of Medicine.
Category: Past events
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“Understanding Heartbreak: From Takotsubo to Wuthering Heights”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Daniel Marchalik discuss the poetic and medical languages to describe heartbreak.
Category: Scholarship
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“Rethinking cures in Jesse Ball’s A Cure for Suicide”
Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Ann Jurecic delve into Jesse Ball’s A Cure for Suicide to explore the experience of loneliness in the present, and the need to better address its social and cultural causes.
Category: Scholarship
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“The Return to Literature—Making Doctors Matter in the New Era of Medicine”
As medicine faces rapid changes in our current era, which include the widespread use of artificial intelligence, it is also expected for the nature of physicians’ jobs to change, as well as medical education. Dr. Marchalik explores the innovative approach of the Literature and Medicine Track of the Georgetown University School of Medicine, and suggests ways in which literature could be used to prepare future doctors for the evolving demands of the medical field.
Category: Scholarship