How Do You Define Health?
Medical care professionals and medical residents are frustrated, fatigued and emboldened by Public Health research censorship and disinformation | Media Alert by Kimberly J. Soenen
The fear, frustration, sorrow, anger and despair expressed by ethical medical professionals globally in recent weeks offers insight into the powerlessness they are feeling as the dismantling of Public Health and Safety continues by convicted felon Donald J. Trump and his supporters.
Between 2018-2019, I contacted medical students and physicians coast-to-coast in the United States to ask them how they defined health and what change they would like to see in the approach to, and model of, healthcare in the United States. I listened to young medical residents and physicians ages 22-94 years old and edited hundreds of short essays. Many of those short essays are included in the "SOME PEOPLE" live exhibition.
Next week, I'll begin publishing select essays from that art installation in THE FINE PRINT Health Humanities Magazine and across social channels.
(Portraits by Riley Gunderson and Kimberly J. Soenen.)