Meet The Author
Meet the MedHum Team: Jack Coulehan
Poet-physician Jack Coulehan reflects on medical humanities, technology’s impact, and poetry’s role in healing in this thoughtful interview.
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick
International adoption from China arose amid policy-driven abandonment, later fostering trafficking incentives and coerced family separations.
When Your Body Isn’t Yours
This essay examines how policy, culture, and power quietly claim women’s bodies worldwide.
From Tigers to Otaku
Parenting in Chinese Canadian immigrant families carries both triumphs and struggles, shaping children into overachievers—or isolating, withdrawn adolescents.
Inside The Pitt: Medicine Meets Drama
A deep-dive podcast exploring The Pitt, a gripping medical drama, its realism, emotional impact, and lessons for medicine and humanity.
The Happiest Couple
A moving portrait of resilience, aging, and love through the remarkable immigrant journey of the happiest couple this doctor has met.
The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese
A special podcast episode blending sports and medicine, exploring The Tennis Partner and the complexities of friendship, addiction, and healing.
The Things We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Dying
A poignant reflection on cultural differences in end-of-life care, personal identity, and the complexities of truth, family, and medical ethics.
How Real is the Pitt?
Dr. Stuart Harman joins Apollo On Call to explore The PITT—a gripping medical drama through the lens of medical humanities.
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
A poignant documentary exploring how a young man with muscular dystrophy found profound connection and purpose in virtual worlds.
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Two book lovers dive into The Emperor of All Maladies, exploring its impact on medicine and storytelling.










