About this Event
We live in times when physicians seem to have been debased to providers of medical services’, with patients being in turn reduced to ‘consumers’. Such debasement of the sacred patient-physician relationship has robbed us of a rich tradition that for centuries made medicine the profession of eclectic individuals capable of contributing to society through much more than stethoscopes and scalpels. Hence, this presentation will prompt reflection on "doctoring" and its responsibilities -- issues that have been rendered even more timely by the coronavirus pandemic. It's therefore a talk on professional identity, prompted in part by the ongoing debate about what it means being a 'Doctor' or, at least, what it ought to mean. This debate was started by the September 2019 Op-Ed piece published by Dr. Goldfarb in the Wall Street Journal (“Take Two Aspirin and Call Me by My Pronouns”), which eventually led to a ‘perspective’ Dr. Mangione published in the New England Journal of Medicine on July 22, 2021.
Speaker:
SALVATORE MANGIONE, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the SKMC of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, where he also directs the Humanities and History of Medicine courses. He is a clinician-educator with a long interest in physical diagnosis, medical history, community service and the role of the humanities in medicine. His innovative programs and engaging teaching style have been recognized by multiple teaching awards, and his work has been featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC, CNN, NPR, and Forbes. Dr. Mangione has also been involved in asthma education, creating (and directing for six years) The AsthmaBUS™, a red doubledecker he bought in London in 1999, shipped to Philadelphia, and eventually outfitted so to provide asthma education and screening for 15,000 middle-school children. For this he received the 2001 American Institute of Architects Award for most innovative exhibit, the 2003 World Asthma Day community service award from Philadelphia, and the 2004 Governors Community Service Award by the Chest Foundation of the American College of Chest Physicians. Dr. Mangione has been an invited speaker at many national and international meetings, especially in regard to the use of visual arts for the teaching of observation. He's the author of the book Secrets in Physical Diagnosis and the recipient of the 2022 Nicholas E. Davies Memorial Scholar Award of the American College of Physicians for Scholarly Activities in History of Medicine and the Humanities.
This event can be counted towards the Asano Humanities & Health Certificate. Learn more at Jefferson.edu/Asano. Students enrolled in both Asano and the Humanities Selective History of Medicine are not eligible to count this session towards Asano.
Questions? Contact Kirsten Bowen, Humanities Program Coordinator, at [email protected].
Image: Finding Our Voice by Benjamin Fleet, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, 2024
Event venue & nearby stays
Bluemle Life Sciences Building, Room 105, 233 S 10th Street, Philadelphia, United States
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