Jay Baruch
Biographic Data
| ID | 5538287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jay Baruch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jay |
| FAMILY NAME | Baruch |
| SIGNATURE | BARUCH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Examining the Constructs of Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, Secondary Traumatic Stress in Physicians Using Factor Analyses
Background Adverse affective experiences have been well-documented in healthcare providers. Research describes them under a variety of terms, including burnout, secondary traumatic stress (STS), and compassion fatigue (CF). The present study evaluates conflicting models of STS, CF, and burnout constructs in physicians. Methods Surveys were mailed to all allopathic physicians with active Rhode Island medical licenses. Three hundred and seventy-fiv…
What Are the Right Tools for Studying Arts in Health Interventions
The arts can touch places that are difficult to recognize and understand, capture in words, or measure by numbers-whether you're an artist, a patient, or an educator. This ineffability presents a dilemma for practitioners and researchers in arts in health when questions of legitimacy, efficacy, program implementation, and research funding are tied to outcomes-based research. Ethical tensions arise when traditional public health and clinical resea…
Stories in the Time of Covid-19
The time of COVID-19 is the time of storytelling—stories of chaos, loss, and despair, but also of victories large and small, acts of kindness, and deep connections. Stories are a way to pass on meaning from one person to another, among communities, and across generations. COVID-19 stories are being used in the education of physicians, but for whose benefit and to what end? What if the “heroic” frontline worker is experiencing burnout or working o…
What Cy Twombly's Art Can Teach Us About Patients' Stories
Some patients' stories can be hard to tell and hard to listen to, especially in pressured, time-pinched clinical environments. This difficulty, however, doesn't absolve clinicians from a duty to try to understand patients' stories, interpret their meanings, and respond with care. Such efforts require clinical creativity, full engagement, and the recognition that emotions and personal feelings leak into the space between storyteller and story list…
Why Won’t My Patient Act Like a Jerk
I’m avoiding Mr. G’s room. I shouldn’t have read the emergency room notes from the other hospital, where this middle‐aged man raised a stink about the wait. What type of person calls the triage nurse a bitch? From the timestamps on the electronic medical record notes, he stormed from that ER and drove his abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, and discontent directly across town to us. I’m reminded of this oft‐quoted aphorism from Sir William Osler:…
Community-engaged Evidence Synthesis to Inform Public Health Policy and Clinical Practice
BACKGROUND: This case study documents the work of the Rhode Island Arts and Health Advisory Group, which convened in 2016 to develop a set of policy, clinical practice, and research recommendations for implementation by the Rhode Island Department of Health, The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and partners. Comprised of artists, clinicians, community members, and patients, the group partnered with researchers to complete an evidence synth…
Opioids and pain in the emergency department
The opioid crisis poses challenges to patients who come to the emergency department (ED) in pain and the clinicians who have a duty to offer relief. In search of help, patients often find suspicion. But clinicians have reasons to be concerned about feeding addiction and its lethal consequences. This article discusses the narrative challenges facing many clinicians in the ED tasked with caring for complex patients in pain. It will discuss the many…
Benefit Paradox
I could have been more understanding, especially when police brought a man I'll call Mr. Atkins to the emergency room for depression and suicidal ideation. But it was 3:00 a.m. and the ER was a carnival of disease and discontent, a parade of drunk drivers and folks who practiced conflict resolution with knives and bullets. A patient well known for her drug abuse wasn't done yelling at me for refusing to write her a narcotic script when a nurse tw…
Disaster Response or Response as Disaster
On September 1, 2005, Memorial Hospital was on “survival mode.” Hurricane Katrina had felled the levees of New Orleans, submerging a modern city with floodwaters of biblical proportions, tasking physicians and nurses to make morally sound decisions under unprecedented conditions, where, as one physician stated, “[T]he laws of man and the normal standards of medicine no longer applied” (p. 9). In Five Days at Memorial, Sheri Fink, a Pulitzer Prize…
Creative Writing as a Medical Instrument
Dr. Douchebag
“I'm not afraid of dying,” he says, despite his plea on arrival. “Listen up, douchebag. Are you calling my cousin or what?” The emergency department might be the only sphere of human exchange where one party—patients (and sometimes family)—are permitted to insult, threaten, and even spit at the very people on whom they depend for help, while the offended parties—physicians, nurses, and other health care providers—must not only tolerate the abuse,…
Gaps in the Safety Net Metaphor
The metaphor of the ED as a safety net works on many levels. It’s visual. It has heroic dimensions. Many physicians and nurses were drawn, and find great purpose, in this ideal. But does it stoke expectations that can’t be met
Why Must Pain Patients Be Found Deserving of Treatment
Case Dr. Maier entered the small curtained room in the emergency department and introduced himself to the patient, Mrs. Winter. Then he asked whether the fourth-year medical student with him, Miss Malloy, could be present for the encounter. "I suppose so," Mrs. Winter said. "But I can't promise that I won't be cranky. I'm in considerable pain." "Tell me about it." Dr. Maier said
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Why Must Pain Patients Be Found Deserving of Treatment
Case Dr. Maier entered the small curtained room in the emergency department and introduced himself to the patient, Mrs. Winter. Then he asked whether the fourth-year medical student with him, Miss Malloy, could be present for the encounter. "I suppose so," Mrs. Winter said. "But I can't promise that I won't be cranky. I'm in considerable pain." "Tell me about it." Dr. Maier said
Gaps in the Safety Net Metaphor
The metaphor of the ED as a safety net works on many levels. It’s visual. It has heroic dimensions. Many physicians and nurses were drawn, and find great purpose, in this ideal. But does it stoke expectations that can’t be met
Dr. Douchebag
“I'm not afraid of dying,” he says, despite his plea on arrival. “Listen up, douchebag. Are you calling my cousin or what?” The emergency department might be the only sphere of human exchange where one party—patients (and sometimes family)—are permitted to insult, threaten, and even spit at the very people on whom they depend for help, while the offended parties—physicians, nurses, and other health care providers—must not only tolerate the abuse,…
Creative Writing as a Medical Instrument
Disaster Response or Response as Disaster
On September 1, 2005, Memorial Hospital was on “survival mode.” Hurricane Katrina had felled the levees of New Orleans, submerging a modern city with floodwaters of biblical proportions, tasking physicians and nurses to make morally sound decisions under unprecedented conditions, where, as one physician stated, “[T]he laws of man and the normal standards of medicine no longer applied” (p. 9). In Five Days at Memorial, Sheri Fink, a Pulitzer Prize…
Benefit Paradox
I could have been more understanding, especially when police brought a man I'll call Mr. Atkins to the emergency room for depression and suicidal ideation. But it was 3:00 a.m. and the ER was a carnival of disease and discontent, a parade of drunk drivers and folks who practiced conflict resolution with knives and bullets. A patient well known for her drug abuse wasn't done yelling at me for refusing to write her a narcotic script when a nurse tw…
Opioids and pain in the emergency department
The opioid crisis poses challenges to patients who come to the emergency department (ED) in pain and the clinicians who have a duty to offer relief. In search of help, patients often find suspicion. But clinicians have reasons to be concerned about feeding addiction and its lethal consequences. This article discusses the narrative challenges facing many clinicians in the ED tasked with caring for complex patients in pain. It will discuss the many…
Why Won’t My Patient Act Like a Jerk
I’m avoiding Mr. G’s room. I shouldn’t have read the emergency room notes from the other hospital, where this middle‐aged man raised a stink about the wait. What type of person calls the triage nurse a bitch? From the timestamps on the electronic medical record notes, he stormed from that ER and drove his abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, and discontent directly across town to us. I’m reminded of this oft‐quoted aphorism from Sir William Osler:…
Community-engaged Evidence Synthesis to Inform Public Health Policy and Clinical Practice
BACKGROUND: This case study documents the work of the Rhode Island Arts and Health Advisory Group, which convened in 2016 to develop a set of policy, clinical practice, and research recommendations for implementation by the Rhode Island Department of Health, The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and partners. Comprised of artists, clinicians, community members, and patients, the group partnered with researchers to complete an evidence synth…
What Cy Twombly's Art Can Teach Us About Patients' Stories
Some patients' stories can be hard to tell and hard to listen to, especially in pressured, time-pinched clinical environments. This difficulty, however, doesn't absolve clinicians from a duty to try to understand patients' stories, interpret their meanings, and respond with care. Such efforts require clinical creativity, full engagement, and the recognition that emotions and personal feelings leak into the space between storyteller and story list…
Stories in the Time of Covid-19
The time of COVID-19 is the time of storytelling—stories of chaos, loss, and despair, but also of victories large and small, acts of kindness, and deep connections. Stories are a way to pass on meaning from one person to another, among communities, and across generations. COVID-19 stories are being used in the education of physicians, but for whose benefit and to what end? What if the “heroic” frontline worker is experiencing burnout or working o…
Examining the Constructs of Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, Secondary Traumatic Stress in Physicians Using Factor Analyses
Background Adverse affective experiences have been well-documented in healthcare providers. Research describes them under a variety of terms, including burnout, secondary traumatic stress (STS), and compassion fatigue (CF). The present study evaluates conflicting models of STS, CF, and burnout constructs in physicians. Methods Surveys were mailed to all allopathic physicians with active Rhode Island medical licenses. Three hundred and seventy-fiv…
What Are the Right Tools for Studying Arts in Health Interventions
The arts can touch places that are difficult to recognize and understand, capture in words, or measure by numbers-whether you're an artist, a patient, or an educator. This ineffability presents a dilemma for practitioners and researchers in arts in health when questions of legitimacy, efficacy, program implementation, and research funding are tied to outcomes-based research. Ethical tensions arise when traditional public health and clinical resea…
Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (5 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Art Therapy and Mental Health (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)