Patrick Tripp
Patrick Tripp, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Radiation Oncology
Department: Radiation Oncology
Contact information
Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center
3900 Woodland Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3900 Woodland Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-823-5855
Education:
B.A. (Philosophy)
Fordham University, 1991.
M.D. (Medicine)
University of Texas at Houston Medical School, 2000.
Permanent linkB.A. (Philosophy)
Fordham University, 1991.
M.D. (Medicine)
University of Texas at Houston Medical School, 2000.
Selected Publications
Patrick Tripp: "The Color of Dust" The American Scholar. Sudip Bose (eds.). Phi Beta Kappa, Summer 2023 Notes: Narrative medicine piece explores fragmented clinical care, friendship, memory, neuroanatomy, medical decision-making.Patrick Tripp: "Invisibility in Medicine" The Threepenny Review. Wendy Lesser (eds.). 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. Robert Wilson (eds.). Phi Beta Kappa, 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. Wendy Lesser (eds.). issue 164, Winter 2021 Notes: Narrative medicine story of older patient with her third lung cancer, struggling with making hard decisions about her care.
Patrick Tripp, Joe Elia: Clinical Conversations: Talking with Veterans. New Engl J of Med, Journal Watch podcast, Clinical Conversations. Joe Elia (eds.). New England Journal of Medicine, Podcast 239, October 2019 Notes: Running Time: 18 minutes.
Tripp, P: "Clinical Conversations: Talking with Veterans" New England Journal of Medicine Clinical Conversations Podcast Oct 2019 Notes: Guest.
Patrick Tripp: "Diary" The London Review of Books. Mary-Kay Wilmers (2019); Jean McNicol and Alice Spawls (current) (eds.). 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: "We'll do everything we can" The American Scholar. Robert Wilson (eds.). Phi Beta Kappa Society, 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.
Patrick Tripp: "I Need Science" The Threepenny Review. Wendy Lesser (eds.). Narrative medicine piece explores physician's struggle with communication when things go wrong, told through the story of a patient receiving radiation for esophagus cancer.(Issue 153), Spring 2018.
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.