By Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) To begin to appreciate biomedicine as its own culture, we must appreciate alternate ways of knowing. As individuals we become indoctrinated into either biomedicine or the social sciences and we are […]
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Category: Anthropology
An overdue rant on “pimping toxic quizzing”
By Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) In a previous post, I promised to come back to a rant on the word “pimping toxic quizzing”. So here we are, better late than never. Simply stated, the term must […]
Walking on the “wrong” side of the road
By Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) I just moved to Australia for an education fellowship and to work on research in the anthropology of trauma care provision. So far so good. I quickly became accustomed to the […]
The Ritual
By Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) Author’s note: As a disclaimer, I am not a surgical resident and have lived the experience in the OR only as an outsider as both a medical student and off-service resident. […]
A rant on “pimping” and social capital
By Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) Every resident has one, or more likely a few, moments that they wish they could take back. Sometimes they relate to patient care but more often they relate to interactions with […]