Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine is dedicated to improving the odds of survival and living well through education. We are committed to engendering and facilitating restorative therapies for the sick and injured, their caretakers, families, and medical professionals. We welcome all who are dedicated to saving lives and the aesthetic experience in healing regardless of the kind of illness or injury.
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Current Issue: Volume 10, Issue 1 (2025) Open Issue
Articles
The USA, The Philippines, Rhetoric, and Me
Barry Brummett
Shedding the Story
Amy E. Robillard
When Do We Ask for Help? An End-of-life Experience in a Level III NICU
Benjamin J. Horn and Shabih Manzar
Jo Spence and the Reorganisation of the Medical Gaze: “Neither ‘Heroine’ or ‘Victim’, Merely a Person in Struggle”
Charlotte E. Jakes
My Startup Wife: How Medical Training Shaped and Challenged Our Marriage
Jesse McEntee PhD and Rachel K. McEntee MD
Vignettes of Vieques: Medical Tales of a Timeless Island
Nishika Navrange
Wondering how it got to this
Ellen Balka
An invisible but obvious ailment
Tess Laidlaw
Broken Blood
Becky M. Johnson
"I can't do this anymore:" Two sisters' route through addiction
Diana L. Gustafson
The story of Phyillis
Natasha Khalid
Out of Darkness - The Road to Recovery
Amole Khadilkar