WHAT DOES A MEDICAL STUDENT DO ALL DAY? | Maya J. Sorini

I watch them while
They pull out clots
When they are gone
I clean her red

The girl goes ghost
I sternal rub
I call a code
I keep my head

I hold her up
I yield the floor
They save her life
I push the bed

I’m left alone
With just the man
I tell him that
His baby’s dead.

Maya J. Sorini is a Narrative Medicine scholar, medical student and award-winning poet. Her first collection, The Boneheap in the Lion's Den, won the 2023 Press 53 Award for Poetry. She has a master's degree and has taught in Columbia University's Narrative Medicine program, and continues to work as a freelance Narrative Medicine workshop facilitator. Her work has appeared in many arts and medical journals, including JAMA, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine and Doximity's Op Med. Sorini attends Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine and lives in Bergen County with her grandmother.

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