Language-Based Medicine
Ultimately, whether it is through language, a shared interest, or another shared commonality, finding ways to connect with our patients is an invaluable skill that can transform medicine from a scienc...
7 Feb 20224min
In a Box
I realized I never processed what I witnessed, experienced, and lived through. I put it all in a box so I could keep going to work. I sealed the box so that nothing could escape and distract me from t...
24 Jan 20226min
Eracism
I choose to view this not as a story of bias against me, but instead of my attending's patience and perseverance. His uncompromising kindness made the patient blind to his own preconceived notions. I ...
17 Jan 20223min
Talking With My Hands
The formative experience I had long sought emerged outside the context of feedback itself. I had spent my rotation in search of people who would change me, but I had not expected to find them dressed ...
10 Jan 20224min
New Constellations
With the mask muffling my voice and the omnipresent sound of monitor alarms, words too, were strained. I grew irate at the situation. The inability to talk. The inability to connect. The inability to ...
27 Des 20217min
Dear Reader
Even in the age of medical miracles, there is still no intervention more powerful than a genuine human connection. There is no lab, no scan, no test, no drug, no surgery, that can replace it. For the ...
20 Des 20216min
Nurses Encounter Diversity
Dementia does not rob the ears of joy. Recent nursing school graduate Anna Swartzlander remembers a patient with dementia who shared with her his love of music. This essay placed second in the 2021 Ho...
13 Des 20215min
The Motherhouse
Why do I find it so much easier to deal with death after the fact than I do watching its slow, looming approach, like the shadow of a cloud creeping over my face? I think of cupping water between my h...
6 Des 20216min
