Lorien Menhennett, Author at The American Mag

The origins of a good “Crafternoon”

For columnist Lorien Menhennett, a love of paper can provide a relief from the world's at times troubling demands.

Editor’s note: In these vignettes, Lorien Menhennett takes a break from her medical writing to peer at the New York [...]

Editor's note: In these vignettes, Lorien Menhennett takes a break from her medical writing to peer at the New York [...]

This morning it’s raining in Naggalama, Uganda. It’s been raining a lot the last two weeks, both brief, light showers [...]

At my white coat ceremony almost three years ago, a physician gave a brief speech about this new attire we [...]

In youth, we ask ourselves what we want to be when we grow up. As adults, the choices turn more specific.

When beds are everywhere around you but none exists for your comfort, Coleridge can come to mind.

Medical school can sometimes mean pushing hard to find out just what it is you're expected to do.

An Objective Structured Clinical Examination is medical school lingo for a very special kind of stress test.

A medical student's first medication order represents something of a milestone from many perspectives.

Mental illness was once handed over to asylum "care," and while a 21st-century psychiatry unit is no picnic, it offers relief.

When you're a medical school student, putting the dating pieces together isn't easily — if it ever is.