John H. Wasson

Oct 6, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Jennifer Wood |Sara Pastoor |John H. Wasson |Gary Call

My fiancée had been complaining on and off about minor knee pain and swelling for months. She kept putting off doing anything about it, because she’s a former college basketball player who had already had two surgeries on that knee, and she assumed it was residual effects from those injuries. But I was having a slow day in clinic, so I told her to come in for an X-ray. And then I saw it. A large tumor behind her knee. Needless to say, that wasn’t what I was expecting to find, but I knew what it was.

Oct 3, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Arthur Lazarus |Robert Pearl |John H. Wasson |Diane W. Shannon

In the vast universe of all that has been written, writing about loss, illness, and death is probably second only to writing about intimacy, relationships, and longing. In the world of narrative medicine, the order is reversed. Patients are harnessing the power of writing, sharing, and telling stories of health and sickness using personal narratives to navigate illness, trauma, and grief.