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…

November 16, 2019

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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…

November 8, 2019

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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…

September 21, 2019

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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. …

September 8, 2019

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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…

May 25, 2019

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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 …

March 2, 2019

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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…

February 6, 2019

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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.…

September 8, 2018

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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…

March 31, 2018

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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,…

December 14, 2017