Love and Injustice in Medicine: Annotated Narrative Ethics Explorations

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Love and Injustice in Medicine delves into the injustices Jeff Nisker has encountered throughout his medical career, including the inherent injustice of illness. Utilizing narrative, Nisker addresses health-ethics dilemmas while advocating for compassion in healthcare. This work is relevant to health professionals, students, and anyone interested in compassion and social justice within the medical field. Nisker begins with a personal experience of being immobilized in an MRI machine during a cerebellar stroke, which brings to mind a promise he made to a woman named Ruth. She had confronted him about the failures of the healthcare system while suffering from inadequate support, ultimately leading to her death. Although deeply affected by her story, Nisker only began to write it after undergoing chemotherapy. He reflects on a pivotal moment from his youth when his uncle urged him to pursue medicine, framing it as a moral imperative against tyranny, which overshadowed his initial aspiration to be like Atticus Finch. The social-justice values instilled by his mother and grandmother, both victims of breast cancer, resonate throughout the narrative. Nisker shares his journey as a medical student, clinician, and advocate, arguing that social justice in Canadian healthcare is diminishing due to privatization and a shortage of physicians. His accessible storytelling aims to engage not only healthcare professionals but also the publ