Healthcare is Human

08/06/2026

Healthcare is Human creator Ryan McCarthy is featured in Narrative Mindworks, sharing his personal perspective on how spirituality plays a critical role in primary care.

07/26/2026

Healthcare is Human creative partners Renée K. Nicholson and Ryan McCarthy recently debuted their new magazine series, “The Strange and Beautiful Moments of Healthcare,” on Doctors on Social Media. This biweekly series will explore objects found within healthcare and the powerful stories they tell. Click on the link below to read the first essay.

Photography by Molly Humphreys.

Strange and beautiful moments of healthcare can be found everywhere if we allow ourselves to pause long enough and appreciate them.

06/20/2026

Molly Humphreys captures Renée K. Nicholson selecting poetry for the podcast, seen here in the reflection of an espresso machine inside Jordan and Hess in downtown Martinsburg, West Virginia.

06/13/2026

Pam Gesford
Photo by Molly Humphreys

05/23/2026

We are thrilled to see HEALTHCARE IS HUMAN displayed on Capitol Hill and covered extensively in the global press. Over six years ago we started this project to authentically tell stories from healthcare, and it is gratifying to see so many inspired, including Noah Wyle, a passionate champion and storyteller. We are currently working on new stories and will be sharing them soon.

Photo by Molly Humphreys

05/16/2026

Photo by Molly Humphreys

04/29/2026

Ryan McCarthy writes about his experience of being exposed to poetry as a child and the poet, and her poem, who shaped the course of his clinical practice.

Poetry in medicine can heal the healer. A physician reflects on how poems by Robert Frost and Renée K. Nicholson restored his humanity.

04/24/2026

Amanda Donnelly RN
Photo by Molly Humphreys