Now is a time to acknowledge those who care for their patients with great humanity.

Many institutions have nominated and selected their GHHS members for this year, and those students, residents, and faculty members deeply deserve to be recognized for their outstanding qualities and care.

GHHS staff is helping by providing the tools to facilitate a virtual induction for your newest members. If you are interested in conducting a virtual induction, please email smorris@gold-foundation.org for the additional resources you may need for this event.
GHHS member Dr. Mike Natter creates art for the healthcare world
“It’s shocking how the surreal nature of the Covid pandemic has become ordinary. Wearing masks, entering isolation rooms and swabbing patients for Covid is a part of the daily ritual of emergency rooms. It feels like all of my patients have Covid. I think a lot about what’s going to happen after we get through this crisis. I hope we can avoid making the same mistakes again. Thousands of deaths could have been prevented if we were more prepared.” -Bon Ku, MD. Illustrated by Mike Natter, MD
“Everyday in the Emergency room feels different these days. There have been frequent changes to workflow, PPE and visitor policies. Change has been constant but necessary. Now more than ever our patients and their families need us. Now more than ever we need each other. To the man in the stretcher behind the mask from the nurse in the scrubs behind the mask, it’s okay to be scared, but please know this: These times might be uncertain but one thing is for absolute certain, you are not alone. We are here for you and we will not stop fighting for you.” -Danielle G, RN. Illustrated by Mike Natter, MD
Dr. Mike Natter is a Gold Humanism Honor Society member and resident physician at NYU Langone, a New York City hospital and Gold Partners Council member hospital that has been on the front lines of the heaviest hit U.S. city in the COVID-19 pandemic. A lifelong artist, Dr. Natter has recently begun sharing illustrations of his colleagues on Instagram, their faces obscured by face shields and masks, yet still priming with powerful humanity. You can follow Dr. Natter on Instagram (@mike.natter) and Twitter (@mike_natter) and on his website, where he sells prints of his art.
Color your own Dr.Natter drawing today!

Coloring and creative expression can be cathartic, and the ongoing COVID crisis calls for both a celebration of our healthcare professionals and calming activities that help us all get through this, one day at a time. The Gold Foundation has joined with Dr. Mike Natter, an artist, NYU Langone resident physician, and Gold Humanism Honor Society member, to create #ColoringCare. View and download the first two #ColoringCare pages. Thank you, Dr. Natter!

We'd love to see your colored pages, and artists interested in creating future #ColoringCare pages to share are encouraged to email Brianne Alcala at balcala@gold-foundation.org. Read a Q&A with Dr. Natter and learn more about his art and thoughts about the human connection in the age of COVID-19..
Congratulations, graduates!
Congrats, grads! We celebrate you and your courage.

Doctors Blessing Ogbemudia, Anesthesiology resident at University of Florida-Gainesville and David Vega, Emergency Medicine resident at the University of Miami, both GHHS members from Indiana University gradated early to enter the workforce during this incredibly tumultuous time in healthcare.

Many other medicals students are graduating from medical school months prior to their expected convocation and entering the hospitals to both serve, and continue to learn in the most intense environment. We applaud your bravery and stand with you in solidarity as you enter this new world.
FROM THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
Resident chapter creates Voices of Humanism
The Resident Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society at Ohio State formed a collaboration with the OSU Medical Heritage Center (MHC) so that we might collect and preserve the arts created during this difficult time. We asked our students, residents, faculty, staff and alumni to send us their work and encouraged writing, photography, painting and other visual and performing arts. We have created the Voices in Humanism Collection at the MHC and are now beginning to share this work with our humanism family. Special thanks to Kristin Rodgers, Collections Curator at the MHC and to the GHHS Resident Chapter president, Kejal Shah, MD.
Sarah Burns, MD Candidate, Class of 2021 Photography Title: For Want of Human Contact: Watercolor doodles on surgical rotation notes
"After four years of hard work, I felt the acute pain for Franklin (and his classmates) in his loss and grieving of the hooding ceremony. It is one of the highest honors a physician can bestow to hood another physician, and one that I did not take lightly. That said, it was a unique day in which we video-called much of our family and friends, and managed to document and enjoy. Good thing we weren’t on a stage after all, as I needed two tries to get the hood on right." Jessica Rutsky, MD PGY-3, Pediatrics, Nationwide Children’s Hospital (On hooding Franklin Privette, 2020 MD Graduate, OSU College of Medicine, her fiancé.)
Watch the 4th annual Humanism in Medicine Last Lecture Series featuring Dr. Linda C. Stone on August 27
The medical Heritage Center, Courage to Teach and the OSU Collaborations in Medical Humanities are presenting the fourth annual Last Lecture series, which draws its theme from a "Last Lecture" written by Randy Pausch: "What wisdom would we impact to the world if we knew it was chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?"

This year's lecture will be given by Linda C. Stone, MD, MA, FAAFP, former GHHS chapter advisory, Special Assistant to the Dean for Humanism and Professionalism, Department of Family Medicine, Emeritus Faculty, The Ohio State University.

Live stream the lecture from 4 to 5 p.m. ET on August 27 or view the recording here later.
The Public Health Coalition is composed of medical students who are trying to facilitate action among their peers. This team will maintain an interactive digital map of the United States showing all COVID-19-related service opportunities organized by medical schools (especially ones that can be done safely at home). Their goal is to set an example for the nation as medical students, help displaced students serve from home, alleviate the existing burden on the healthcare system, combine resources, support medical workers, and promote the exchange of ideas.
Support for healthcare workers
GHHS medical students and their peers are looking for ways to help however they can, even if they can't be direct support on the front lines.
Left to right: GHHS members and MS3 students Cherisse Kawamura, Lucia Amore, Carrie Ip, and Shelley Wong
"A pandemic brings with it unbearable sadness, but it can also bring out the best in people. At the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) the circumstances of COVID-19 has brought out the best in its MD 2020 and MD 2021 classes. The medical students realized that the MD 2019 graduates, now hospital interns, are on the front lines of the virus." -- Shelley Wong
Share your activities and photos
If you would like to highlight your chapter's activities on our website and social media, please send a blurb and clear images to Mary Grace Schwalbe.
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