What is Health Humanities?

Srishti R

Knowing all this info [from HaTH], I hope in my future medical practices, I can approach all patients with compassion.

[HaTH] gave me the language to articulate my own experiences growing up with largely invisible, undiagnosed disabilities.

I feel more compelled to listen to individuals about what they need or want rather than imposing my own assumptions onto them.

After reading [Tolstoy], I felt that I had become more emotionally capable of handling sickness and death in my own life.

One of the main takeaways from a class was the concept of cultural relativism...now I can't stop noticing instances ethnocentrism.

Learning about suffering and how we communicate it has pushed me to be more gentle and understanding my own pain and others

Below, this episode of What Brings You In Today? features two former SMPH students who took a Medical Humanities course during their time at UW.