The-POV

interviews with people whose voices, visions, and victories are making the world a better place

[The-POV @The__POV]

Nautilus Book Awards 2025: Caring for Self & Others - Gold in the Health, Healing & Wellness category
https://t.co/9AYa3MRttW

[The Plant Initiative @Plant_Init]

The graphically-rich Fall 2024 issue of the open-access peer-reviewed Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture is now available for free download online. Contains several articles related to plants. https://t.co/c6i3gM11lQ

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so… The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.”

Alan Watts on our search for meaning and the antidote to our existential loneliness https://t.co/p8MYofr7Bw

[Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare @Empathy_Centre]

💡 A study has examined the effectiveness of different educational strategies for teaching empathy to medical students.

🔗 Read more here: https://t.co/JywZW3hOKW

#empathy #medicaleducation

[The-POV @The__POV]

Anoushka Shankar BBC interview

https://t.co/skyqDB5krD

[The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) @brainpickings]

"I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure."

When the poetic neurologist Oliver Sacks learned that he was dying, he wrote something almost unbearably beautiful about the measure of living — the ultimate thanks-giving: https://t.co/1IIzbuINcP

[CLOSLER @CLOSLER]

By focusing on the positive aspects of medicine, clinicians reduce stress and provide more compassionate care. Happy Thanksgiving! @Medicalenglishb @millstej @RichSchaeferMD @lamsalebanon1 @roshni_beeharry @MotherinMed @PamPeekeMD #MedTwitter https://t.co/aGVpXRB8Ea

[JonMcF #RejoinEU @Medicalenglishb]

@arsmedica_org @davidkopaczmd A must !!!! @davidkopaczmd has so much to teach or divulge both for medical practitioners and for people who are suffering; paradoxically very often they are the same people

[Ars Medica @arsmedica_org]

How do we navigate the experience of being a doctor and a patient at the same time? In this episode of The Physician's Journey we bring you a conversation with @davidkopaczmd who talks about his experience with cancer
https://t.co/1PXccvntW0

#medtwitter #medschool #meded #medx

[🌟Roshni Beeharry 💙 aka The Peripatetic Academic @roshni_beeharry]

@Medicalenglishb @davidkopaczmd

[JonMcF #RejoinEU @Medicalenglishb]

Words of Compassion, Soul and Wisdom - Listen please

[JonMcF #RejoinEU @Medicalenglishb]

Thank you ⁦@arsmedica_org⁩ and ⁦@davidkopaczmd⁩ https://t.co/aUAbO1tLoL

[JonMcF #RejoinEU @Medicalenglishb]

William Osler’s influence is strong in the very best of today’s doctors and surgeons @ManuelPera11 and @davidkopaczmd who seamlessly blend #humanism and #science and are #rolemodels for future generations

[CLOSLER @CLOSLER]

"In caring for pts, embrace the paradox of the wound. Recognize that illness can be an opportunity for their growth &personal transformation. Support them in exploring the spiritual & emotional dimensions of the experience."— @davidkopaczmd #MedTwitter
https://t.co/mcqhqJpfyF

[CLOSLER @CLOSLER]

"Wounds call for compassionate care & tending, but part of this tending is to support pts in seeing how they may grow from wounds."— @davidkopaczmd @Medicalenglishb @OuraniaVarsou @DoctorHumanist #MedTwitter @navarrotradmed @JohnLauner @ManuelPera11

https://t.co/mcqhqJoHJ7

[Baharak Tabarsi, MD, FAAFP @btabarsimd]

About last night….

I fled #Iran as an asylum seeker/refugee.
Many years later here I was listening to @HillaryClinton in person!!!

[The Plant Initiative @Plant_Init]

The Call for Proposals for symposia, workshops & training courses for @SERestoration's 2025 conference in Denver, CO has been extended to Oct 15, 2024. https://t.co/btygEZfpFk

[Center for Humans & Nature @humansandnature]

🍂 Submissions are now open for single-author book manuscripts. Review guidelines and submit your proposal here: https://t.co/zT0NMmAyZ3 For submissions to the digital branch of Humans & Nature Press, including essays, poetry, and artwork, stay tuned for next year’s open call. 🍃

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

"For doctors, the book is a salutary warning against pretension and perfectionism—or the delusion that you can ever be faultless, as a professional or a human being."

@johnlauner on what doctors can take away from Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
https://t.co/hRw3GWlELb

[Center for Humans & Nature @humansandnature]

Opening Monday: Humans & Nature Press will be accepting proposals for single-author book manuscripts 📚 Details: https://t.co/zT0NMmA19v ✍️ For submissions to the digital branch of Humans & Nature Press, including essays, poetry, & artwork, stay tuned for next year’s open call 💚