Patrick Tripp, MD

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Selected Publications

• Patrick Tripp : "The Color of Dust" The American Scholar Summer 2023 Notes: Narrative medicine piece explores fragmented clinical care, friendship, memory, neuroanatomy, medical decision-making
• Patrick Tripp : "Invisibility in Medicine" The Threepenny Review (171) Fall 2022 Notes: Narrative medicine story describes "invisible" parts of medicine, including microscopic cancer, memory, grief
• Patrick Tripp : "Never Take Hope from the Patient" The American Scholar Winter 2022 December 2021 Notes: narrative medicine piece explores medical decision-making in the context of limited medical evidence
• Patrick Tripp : "The Big One" The Threepenny Review issue 164 Winter 2021 Notes: Narrative medicine story of older patient with her third lung cancer, struggling with making hard decisions about her care.
• Tripp, P : "Clinical Conversations: Talking with Veterans" New England Journal of Medicine Clinical Conversations Podcast Oct 2019 Notes: Guest
• Patrick Tripp, Joe Elia : Clinical Conversations: Talking with Veterans New Engl J of Med, Journal Watch podcast, Clinical Conversations Podcast 239 October 2019 Notes: Running Time: 18 minutes
• Patrick Tripp : "Diary" The London Review of Books 41(10) May 2019 Notes: Narrative medicine piece captures Vietnam veterans, almost 50 years later, now with cancer diagnosis, relating Vietnam experience to cancer
• Patrick Tripp : "I Need Science" The Threepenny Review (Issue 153) Spring 2018
• Patrick Tripp : "We'll do everything we can" The American Scholar Winter 2018 Notes: Narrative medicine story traces the history of developments in radiation oncology, told through the story of a patient with advanced lung cancer
• Ojerholm E, Van Arsdalen KN, Roses RE, Tripp P. : Initiative to reduce bone scans for low-risk prostate cancer patients: A quasi-experimental before-and-after study in a Veterans Affairs hospital. Adv Radiat Oncol 2(3) : 416-419, Jul 2017 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.adro.2017.07.001.