Submit Your Story
Stories are data
We welcome story submissions from our community that help to broaden our understanding of the experience of industrial healthcare and the opportunities for careful and kind care.
Directions
We look to stories to highlight the lived experience of everyone connected to healthcare; patients, caregivers, clinicians, staff, administrators, researchers, etc.
In particular, we are looking for stories that help our community understand how the signs of industrial healthcare (also known as the pathologies of care) — blur, cruelty, burden, and hurry/inaction — and the signs of careful and kind care — competent compassion, minimal disruption, responsive tempo, and biography with biology — appear in the real world.
These videos offer an overview of how we use stories and what these terms mean. If you’d like to know more, consider taking our Foundations of Care course.
SPECS
We accept stories in 4 formats:
Video
Audio
Visual images and art
Written (with or without photos)
The target final length for videos and audio clips is 60-150 seconds. Written pieces should be between ~50-750 words and written in Microsoft Word, a Google Doc, or other word processing software.
For visual images and art, aim for at least a 300 dpi PDF, JPEG, or PNG.
What stories tell us
4-minute watch
Signs of Industrial Healthcare
4-minute watch
Signs of Careful and Kind Care
3-minute watch
Key things to consider in your story submission
Tell us what happened. (Where did it happen? Who was involved? What was said or not said?)
Tell us how the experience made you feel and/or what it made you think about.
Tell us which of the signs of industrial healthcare and/or careful and kind care seem most relevant to your story.
Please refrain from naming specific people and healthcare organizations. Say “the doctor” instead of Dr. Breslin or “the hospital” instead of Breslin Hospital.
Things to know
We are a small team, and submissions are reviewed monthly. We reserve the right to make minor edits including for length, anonymity, grammar/spelling, etc.
We will notify you if your piece is selected for publishing.
Please contact us with any questions before or after submission.