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May 16, 2025
Reflecting on the courageous who have left imprints on our soul by Miki Simic
May 16, 2025

We carry them in our thoughts and in our prayers. It is the unspoken in the medical field. The hesitation you feel, to show at times, you hurt for them, with them, through them. The patient unaware that emotion is viable and present when treating, caring, or guiding steps to an end, no matter what that may be. Their physical bodies are present at the appointments, but their souls are searching elsewhere for meaning. The “why” of illness.

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May 16, 2025
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Apr 11, 2025
Fear of Loss: A reflection by medical student and Intima editor, Grace Yi
Apr 11, 2025

In “Mathematical Fix | ation” (Fall 2023 Intima), Laura Pinto describes the slow decline of her father’s ability to communicate. She tries her best to accompany him along his inward spiral of dementia, in which he has become completely fixated on arithmetic and logic, to the point that she calls him “Professor” rather than father. I am struck by the small joys she discovers in his lucid moments at the end of his life, such as when he calls her by name, only once, in the way he did when she was young. Putting myself in her shoes, I wonder if I would have the grace and openness of heart to delight in similar moments, as untethered as I imagine I might be in the face of impending loss.

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Apr 11, 2025
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Apr 4, 2025
Marking the Firsts and Reflecting on "What Now?" by OB/GYN Physician, Dr. I. Cori Baill
Apr 4, 2025

Writing Late reminded me how impactful are the firsts of medical education; the first time one works with a cadaver, is coached through the delivery of a baby, or finds oneself running the code.  Late draws from my internship on the GYN oncology service, entrusted to manage patients at the end of their lives.

At the other end of those decades, I now find myself thinking about the impact I have as an attending.

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Apr 4, 2025
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Mar 28, 2025
Hospital Hallways: Physician-Poet Jennifer Li Reflects on Grief
Mar 28, 2025

We see death so often as healthcare providers. I think often about the cognitive dissonance it brings to our lives: coming in such intimate proximity with it, discussing it in depth with people about themselves or their loved ones, and then returning and retreating to our own spaces and people and homes as if we can be safely tucked away from its harsh reality.

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Mar 28, 2025
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Mar 21, 2025
A Poem of Thanks: A Reflection by Poet/Physician Dianne Silvestri
Mar 21, 2025

I wanted my note to sound grateful, but the words couldn’t mask my sorrow over my alienation from any familiar or valuable path. I had lived through transplantation of a stranger’s stem cells into me. The mandatory one year of donor anonymity had passed. Surely I must send thanks to the donor whose cells were keeping me alive. But three years swept me back and forth from the hospital, trying to survive infections and graft-vs-host attacks. I saw my husband’s head shake “no” to each next draft I attempted.

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Mar 21, 2025
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Mar 14, 2025
Moments of Humanity During a Clinician’s Day: A Reflection by Joanne Wilkinson
Mar 14, 2025

For many physicians, a clinical day is a river of tasks to be navigated….These moments come to us randomly, often without any advance warning.

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Mar 14, 2025
Art, Dance, and Grief: A Reflection by Tessa Palisoc and Andrew Murdock
Mar 7, 2025
Art, Dance, and Grief: A Reflection by Tessa Palisoc and Andrew Murdock
Mar 7, 2025

Medical students Tessa Palisoc and Andrew Murdock comment on how the arts—in this instance painting and dance—allow the artist and the observer to “process death and find a nuanced perspective of loss.”

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Mar 7, 2025
Those Who Came Before: A Promise and a Reflection by medical student-artist Angela Tang-Tan
Feb 28, 2025
Those Who Came Before: A Promise and a Reflection by medical student-artist Angela Tang-Tan
Feb 28, 2025

Medical student Angela Tang-Tan, creator of the cartoon, “White Coat Ceremony,” worked as an EMT transporter during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this blog post, she reflects on a poem from that difficult time by by geriatrician Terry E. Hill, MD entitled, “Points of Historical Interest.”

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Feb 28, 2025
Prayers: A Reflection by Angela Tang-Tan
Feb 25, 2025
Prayers: A Reflection by Angela Tang-Tan
Feb 25, 2025

I hesitated to write “Top Surgery,” and I hesitated even more to submit it. In it, I wrote that “I stand with my back to the wall, drawing silence around me like armor.”

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Feb 25, 2025
My Illness, My Story: Graphic Medicine and Narratives by Maja Milkowska-Shibata
Feb 21, 2025
My Illness, My Story: Graphic Medicine and Narratives by Maja Milkowska-Shibata
Feb 21, 2025

Maja Milkowska-Shibata, creator of “Beyond Broken: The Science of Bone Lengthening
and My Ilizarov Story
” in the Fall 2024 issue of Intima expresses her appreciation for fellow graphic artist, Gianna Paniagua, whose comic, “Human Experience,” appeared in the Fall 2022 issue.

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Feb 21, 2025

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