Intima Archives | NON-FICTION - M-Z by title
Machinery | Sean Murphy | SPRING 2017
When confronted with a loved one's cancer, we find ourselves (and our bodies) reacting in unpredictable ways.
March Manic | Lisa Jacobs | SPRING 2019
The frenzy of Spring brings out frazzled late night decision-making in the Psychiatric emergency room.
Mathematical Fixation | Laura Pinto | FALL 2023
One plus one equals…? When knowledge and memories don’t add up for the Professor, that simple equation becomes a lifeline for a daughter making sense of her father’s dementia.
Maybe It's Beautiful | Alexis Rehrmann | SPRING-SUMMER 2026
Loss has many voices, and speaking those stories and hearing them is “how we move toward healing,” says the author.
Mea Culpa | Ron Lands | SPRING 2023
Looking closely at a patient changes everything.
Medical Maze | Josephine Ensign | SPRING 2016
The physical sense of a hospital space impacts the experience of the patient and the practitioner.
Medicine Versus Surgery | Khanjan Shah | SPRING 2014
A medical resident reflects on the rivalry between medicine and surgery and the necessity for communication between healers.
Mena and Natalie | Melissa Franckowiak | FALL 2018
Friendship between caregiver and child challenges a nanny’s maternal instincts when illness arises.
The Memory Tree | Indu Voruganti | Spring 2014
A reflection on a creative expression workshop for individuals with early Alzheimer's and memory loss examines what it means to be a remembering being.
Mercies: Or, the Mostly True Tale of a Narratively-Assisted Death | Paula Holmes-Rodman
“What is the last story you would want to hear? And what if you could choose the teller and the tale?”
Missed Connections, Distant Places | Niharika Sathe | SPRING 2024
During the pandemic, telemedicine brought doctors and patients together while the vaccine sometimes kept them apart.
Miss July | Laurie Gunst | FALL 2012
As a woman grows older, she struggles to accept her changing body in a society that stigmatizes aging.
The Moral Matrix of Wartime Medicine | Jeffrey Brown | FALL 2015
A doctor in Vietnam makes choices rooted in humanity, instinct, and survival.
Morning Light | Dianne Avey | SPRING 2023
Even ten years later, the loss of a loved one feels like the present.
Moving Day | Christine Nguyen | FALL-WINTER 2025-26
Careful and caring, a daughter watches how others make her father transfer to a nursing home a smooth passage.
Mr. Arable's Ax | Jennifer DeCoste | SPRING-SUMMER 2026
A formative lesson from a classic children’s book holds an important resonance, in different ways and at different times, in a pediatrician/medical educator’s life.
Ms. Johnson | Monique Hedmann | FALL 2012
As a woman ages, her stories remain as relevant as ever—especially for one who really listens.
My Biggest Mistake | Cormac Duff | SPRING 2023
When a potentially life-changing error is made, facing up to it becomes the only option.
My Father's Doctor | Jennifer Chianese | SPRING 2016
A father, a daughter, a doctor and the roller-coaster that is life.
My Mudflats | Patricia Brenneman | FALL 2017
An unusual metaphor adds to language to the struggle with illness.
My Two Walks | Jane McCauley | SPRING-SUMMER 2026
The writer, who experienced a stroke after a 10-day hike in the Himalayas, recounts in a wry and honest way how disconcerting it can be to have others seemingly deny that anything has changed.
The Myth of the White Coat | Allison Larson | SPRING 2016
The white coat offers no guarantees, and no protection.
My Body, Your Body | Lauren Reyes | FALL 2024
Anatomy class becomes a meditation on honoring the body, language, stories, one’s ancestors and oneself.
My Eyes are a Map of Veins | Jacqueline Ellis | SPRING 2022
Other people’s responses lend empathy and insight to this piece about an unusual condition.
My First Patient | Casey Means | FALL 2013
A difficult patient proves to be the best teacher: A medical student finds connection and meaning.
My Heart is In My Hands | Karen Jahn | SPRING 2015
A breathless patient and her cardiologist search for the language to reframe a complex medical history.
Narrative Mindfulness | Charles Paccione | FALL 2015
Through listening and attentiveness, a mental health provider advocates for improved communication.
Never Tell a Truth | Douglas Krohn | FALL 2020
How does a physician share news that will devastate a loved one?
Night River | Daniel Shalev | FALL 2015
How can I give that up? Becoming yourself by making choices, even while dying.
Night Trip | Michael Geisser | FALL 2015
A writer with motor neuron disease reflects on his life and embodiment during an early morning trip to the bathroom.
No One Gets Out Alive Anyway | Ellen Holtzman | SPRING 2017
A patient awaits a possible terminal diagnosis. This is her mantra.
No Pain No Gain | Anna Reid | FALL 2017
A challenging workout pushes a patient to her edge.
The Note | Elizabeth Titus | SPRING 2013
A wife reflects on a note left by her husband's radiologist, and the complexities of end of life care.
Numb | Nikhil Barot | SPRING 2019
A physician navigates the concepts of feeling and pain in trying to care for a cancer patient.
Of Birds and Mice | Nancy Stephan | SPRING 2013
A woman gains a new understanding of her young self when her cousin, inspired by his backyard denizens, broaches a long-buried subject.
On Call | Lainie Holman | FALL 2012
For an intern in a pediatric hospital, life and death are all in a day’s work
On Call | Sneha Mantri | FALL 2011
In the Cardiac Critical Care unit, a doctor has a first real life experience with CPR.
On Elevators | Tarina Quraishi | SPRING 2015
A hospital volunteer reflects on how care and human connection are revealed on elevators.
On My Way To Work: A Walk Through San Francisco's Tenderloin Neighborhood | Kathryn Taylor | FALL 2023
A clinician leads us on a disturbing yet compassionate walk to work.
On Perseus’s Wings | Therese Wolfe | SPRING 2022
Aging and illness progression are relieved through literature, memory, and a return to a favorite place.
On Schedule | Kate Swenson | FALL 2015
A girl grows, within her own time, to love the woman she is.
One in 100,000 Children | David Sleeth-Keppler | SPRING-SUMMER 2026
This reflection on how probabilities and results don’t always align offers a powerful perspective on how uncertainty is handled and communicated in the clinical encounter.
Open Heart, Open Book | Jennifer Stella | SPRING 2014
What's it like to scrub in on a case during cardiothoracic service? A doctor describes the revelations.
Over the Summer | Julia Hyman | SPRING 2013
During a break from college, a pre-med student learns what it's like to work at a teaching hospital.
Outside the Lines | Audrey Ferber | SPRING 2021
A loving wife reflects on her husband—and on all that has been lost and what still remains.
Pain Boss | Suzanne Travis | FALL 2024
Certain patients make an indelible impression because of their generosity, flamboyance, intelligence and wit, even in the face of dying.
Paint Blistered Doll | Thomas Gibbs | FALL 2013
A story told by a physician to his patient has a radioactive intensity.
Pandora's Box | Candice Carnes | FALL 2013
How do you talk about an affliction that everyone—doctors, friends, yourself—says doesn't exist?
Paper Crowns | Abigail DeNike | FALL 2024
In the pediatric oncology wing, a medical student learns how to summon strength from a young patient princess.
Partial Detachment | Davida Pines | SPRING 2024
It’s often hard to see clearly or know how to respond to a medical condition when Dad is a vocabulary purist.
Passing the Touch | Nathan Rockey | FALL-WINTER 2025-26
What we receive from our family — in mementos and memories — holds meaning for our everyday lives.
Patient Education Pamphlet | Jenny Eleanor | SPRING 2025
A pediatrician and mom wrestles with the gravity and interconnectivity of her two identities.
Patriotism, Tissue Paper, and Showers | Jeff Shearl | SPRING 2017
It helps to have a sense of humor when your illness is no laughing matter.
Perfect | Joanna Sharpless | FALL-WINTER 2025-26
When a baby is born, what are the expectations? A doctor’s reflection after giving birth.
Performing my First Caesarean: A Reflection on the Intersection of Dance and Surgery | Shilpa Darivemula and Roshni Prakash | FALL 2020
Come dance with us: Lessons taught in the operating room parallel the awareness a dancer learns when trained in Kuchipudi, one of the classical dance forms of India.
Personal Effects | Kerry Leddy | SPRING 2019
A grieving mother tries to understand her daughter through the items she left behind.
The Personal is the Pastoral | Betty Morningstar | FALL 2021
With unfinished business at the end of life, a woman turns to friends to ease her final passage.
Physician as Enabler | Vik Reddy | SPRING 2016
A surgeon reflects on the unintentional error of his ways.
Physics and Big Lips | Malavika Eby | SPRING 2024
Even a mother finds it impossible to smile when the town orthodontist comes up with an implausible explanation when asked a simple question.
Plague Season: A Memoir | Eileen Valinoti | FALL 2017
Be transported back in time with imagery of the iron lung and strict conduct codes for nurses.
Please Don't Do Anything Else | Teva Brender | FALL 2023
In a hectic San Francisco Emergency Department, a doctor respects the wishes of a patient and his primary care physician.
Poetry Hour | Sarah Gundle | FALL 2023
When therapy stalls, poetic license offers an alternative way to look into a troubled soul.
Polychroma | Justin Millan | SPRING 2020
Illness comes in many colors.
Post Mortem | Elizabeth Warner | SPRING-SUMMER 2026
Acknowledging failure is done in morbidity and mortality conferences as well as in the lonely, solitary drives home. Years later, a surgeon wonders why.
The Potato Salad Recipe Binder | Dixie L. King | SPRING-SUMMER 2026
Caregiving takes its toll. “They call it ‘compassion fatigue,’ this inability to feel or display human kindness toward even those we love most, because the internal well has run dry,” writes the author. Finding the ingredients to feed the soul takes patience and a sense of humor.
The Power of a Handshake | Hugh Silk | SPRING 2015
Fist bump or strong grip? A doctor considers how a greeting may change a clinical encounter.
Precipice | Kelly Garriott Waite | SPRING 2016
Many challenges confront a patient, who experiences the anxiety of simultaneously confronting possible illness and navigating a procedure-focused healthcare system.
Premies | John Graham-Pole | SPRING 2016
Newborns, the most vulnerable being premature twins, generate a meditation about surviving the odds.
The Pre-Op Interview | Kieran Shamash | SPRING 2023
Communication is much more the sum of words.
Pronounce | Rose Berman | SPRING-SUMMER 2026
It’s certainly not like learning French! But learning how to pronounce the patient and mastering the nuances of the language to use for it holds the secret to getting this rite of passage right.
The Pull of Gravity | Janet Cincotta | FALL 2017
One bacterium, two siblings, and two intertwining histories of healing.
The Push | Sheila Ojeaburu | SPRING 2021
Reaching out with empathy, a clinician persuades a young mother to reconsider a life-and-death decision.
The Quixotic Pursuit of Quality | Dean Schillinger | FALL 2015
A physician and patient reconcile their divergent views on the meaning of quality in healthcare.
Range of Vision | Catherine Klatzker | FALL 2013
A couple finds out their baby has persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous (PHPV) in her left eye and takes steps to handle the challenge—for their daughter and themselves.
Reap What We Sow | Janice Anderson | FALL 2016
A difficult birth helps a practitioner address tensions among the medical team and within herself.
Red Line Rising | Michael Brown | SPRING 2018
You might call it a vision quest: How treating a homeless man's eye injury brings more than just the clinical procedure into focus.
Re: Interesting Case | Sarah Cady | SPRING-SUMMER 2026
Pat phrases make it easy to handle ambivalent moments in the day-to-day treatment of mental health. But stock phrases also obscure rather than resolve what makes us unsure of how to think about a patient. Describing the inclination to fall back on them, as this sensitive essay does, will make you rethink your use of them.
Remembrance | Jennifer Li | FALL 2022
Of wasp bites and honoring ancestors: A resident’s own experiences of loss help her bring comfort to a patient.
Rekindling a Physician's Soul | Zoran Naumovski | FALL 2024
What does it take to find solace after pandemic burnout? Strangely enough, a doctor discovers trauma is the best medicine on a frantic Florida beach on Memorial Day.
Request for a Search and Seizure Warrant in the Matter of Mr. Richard W. Shepard’s Remains | Nels Highberg | FALL 2018
A professor searches among fragments of his past for closure never afforded by a friend’s illness and ultimate demise.
Resisting Breast Cancer Culture: Two Stories | Judith Cohen and Sarah Sutro | SPRING 2014
Two women, an artist and a writer, document their experiences without sentimentality and talk about why they don't use the term "survivor."
Resisting the Vortex: Thoughts on Narrative Medicine and Dying Well | Rebecca A. McAteer | FALL 2013
A doctor herself, the daughter of a doctor considers her own attitudes about end of life care as she reflects back on her mother's death.
Response Time | Dena Brownstein | FALL-WINTER 2025-26
Coming back from a mind-rattling night in the ER can’t be measured simply in minutes, hours or days.
Restoration | Robert McEachern | FALL-WINTER 2025-26
Diagnosis of a “watch and wait” cancer prompts a meditation on recovering what’s been lost.
Retrospection Series | Joseph Burns | FALL 2019
A resident reflects on learning through experience and sharing that with other doctors.
Room 427 | Zainab Mabizari | SPRING 2019
An emotionally engaging portrayal of a daughter’s attempt to understand her father’s gradual death.
Room 4512 | Suzanne Travis | SPRING 2024
Snow wishes and vein troubles: a funny-sad tale of the patient who copes with life and death as it comes at him remembered by a clinician who lived it too.
Rounds | Susan Ito | FALL 2015
A return to Alta Bates Hospital triggers memories of pivotal moments in the life of a physical therapist.
Schmeckle Down | Kenneth Weinberg | FALL 2020
An unobserved holiday sets the stage for a remarkable encounter.
Sea Glass | Alexandra Godfrey | FALL 2024
Going back in time resurfaces memories, some sharp and bright, others muted and only now truly understandable.
See No Evil | Gillian Pidcock | SPRING 2013
What do you do when a parent isn't interested in the push toward health?
See One, Do One, Teach One | Lauren Gambill | SPRING 2017
Reflections on a simple, yet old-fashioned educational principle for becoming a physician.
Sensory Processing Disorder | Minna Dubin | FALL 2019
A mother tells her child what she wishes she could do for them.
The Shape of the Shore | Rana Awdish | FALL 2020
When certainty and safety feel so far away, leaning on one another may make the journey feel possible.
She'll Be Right, Mate | Dennis Freire | SPRING-SUMMER 2026
Sometimes a passing stranger holds insights and comfort in a moment when treatment feels disorienting.
Sick, Lonely, Brave | Rachel Tanner | SPRING 2014
Dealing with illness is one of the loneliest battles you can face, but you are not alone.
Sisters Lost | Kat McNichol | SPRING 2021
It isn’t always possible to negotiate deep familial ties, when a woman feels the absence of a sibling who is right in front of her.
Sisters Under the Skin | Carol Scott-Conner | SPRING 2024
Who do you tell about your diagnosis when you’re a doctor treating exactly that condition? An esteemed breast cancer surgeon offers a reflection, pinpointing the choices made..
The Skull on My Desk | Allison Rosenbaum | SPRING 2021
Anatomy lab is one of many things lost during pandemic-era medical school.
Sleep to Dream | Jackie Mantey | SPRING 2021
Narcolepsy is more than tired—“Fatigue felt like dipping in and out of a drowning state, and sleep felt like succumbing to the water” —and a diagnosis is the key to moving forward.
Soft Side Of The Tiger | Cheryl Shore | SPRING 2017
A mysterious memory changes a woman's life as she unravels her past.
Some Body | PK Kennedy | FALL 2021
Patience isn’t always easy when there is a painful path toward an elusive diagnosis.
Some Cream With My Cholesterol | Steven Lewis | SPRING 2016
Non-compliance: the word is profoundly close to "nonsense" in the dictionary and sometimes a bit of irreverence is the best medicine.
Soon It Will Be Over | Melissa Cummins | SPRING 2025
Holding on to a mantra can soothe during the uncertainties of fertility treatments.
Spa Day | Gwendolyn Harwood | SPRING 2023
A moment of acceptance brings joy to a difficult situation.
Spice | Mark Tan | SPRING 2021
Echoes of Frank Herbert’s “Dune” frames this harrowing account of a man who ends up in a “state beyond sleep and death.”
Starting Out | JP Sutherland | FALL 2022
On call, a psychiatric resident meets a new mother with post-partum psychosis and deepens his practice during her slow and steady treatment.
Stepping Up | Robin Kemper | SPRING 2023
Sisyphus lives in this trip up the stairs.
The Stretcher | Hassan Bencheqroun | SPRING-SUMMER 2026
“He’s fine” sounds different when the “he” is your father. So says a critical care doctor in this moving essay about how your worldview changes and adjusts when healthcare becomes deeply personal.
Stuck Between Floors | Katherine White | SPRING 2022
Knowledge of a diagnosis and the success of treatment are not always enough to ward off anxiety.
Suffer the Little Beagles | Susan Murphy | SPRING 2025
A bone marrow transplant, a miracle recovery, and the unshakeable memory of those that made it possible.
Sulieman | Tim Cunningham | FALL 2019
Ebola, Sierra Leone, and the unsung heroes of daily life.
The Sunshine Chairs | Tim Cunningham | FALL 2015
An ebola stricken child teaches a nurse to see the light in dark places.
Tablespoons of Air | Katherine Toler | SPRING-SUMMER 2026
This one will take your breath away: witnessing the tenacity of the cardiothoracic ICU nurse who lived it during a fearful passage in time for all of us.
Take a Deep Breath | Sheethal Gloria Oommen | SPRING 2024
"Listening—not just to the complaints patients have, but the context their disease evolved in—makes a great deal of difference to the care we can provide and the level of trust and comfort they have in us.” It’s just one of many lessons from a clinician growing up with asthma in different countries and healing cultures.
Taking Off the Gloves | Lane Robson | SPRING 2021
“Tears flow and flow and flow”: the story of a physician caring for a young child in Sierra Leone with serious pneumonia as rain floods the roads outside.
Tale of the Crying Girl Who Never Cries | Barbara Baglietto | FALL 2014
We pride ourselves on controlling our emotions, but what price do we pay when we do that? A clinician recounts a story that enlightens and instructs.
Thank You, Creedence | Sarah Birnbach | FALL 2021
Music turns a scary surgical procedure into a soul-satisfying adventure
There Will Be No Problems | Tony Guerra | SPRING 2014
Three tiny lives to welcome into the world: A parent of triplets finds comfort in a doctor's statement.
Things I Learned From Pole Dancing That I Did Not Learn From Residency | Elise Mullan | FALL 2022
The grind of residency leads to a creative way of stress-reduction.
This Blurry Place of Better | Sarah Cymrot | SPRING 2023
After a stroke, the relief in recovery often comes in waves, receding as often as the tide.
This Story | Melissa Rosato | FALL 2016
Her last patient of the day becomes a memory that keeps her rethinking the narrative.
3:43 AM | Sunidhi Ramesh | FALL 2020
Seeing how tenuous life is in the middle of the night is a wake-up call for a medical student on the labor and delivery service.
Three Moments in a Trainee's Training | Snow Wangding | FALL 2022
Inexperience allows a young doctor the chance to question everything—herself and her patients, especially the ones lost and never really known.
Through the Valley | Caiwei | SPRING-SUMMER 2026
When the Comfort Measures Only sign posts and silence feels like a prayer, a doctor observes with quiet respect and measured care.
The Thunderstorm That Saved My Life | Vanessa Garza
Rare neurovascular malformation (brain AVM) is not an easy diagnosis to process—for patient and spouse—as this honest and loving essay reveals.
Tidepools | Jennifer Tsai | FALL 2016
Opening the body during surgery opens unusual associations.
Toe to Toe | Elizabeth Mitchell | SPRING 2024
The last moments with a parent include new anatomical discoveries and a surprising closeness.
To Melinda | Priscilla Mainardi | FALL 2020
The loss of a neighbor during the COVID-19 spring brings back memories—of get-togethers, coincidental connections and a constellation of emotions.
To Shred, Or Not | Timothy Brennan | FALL 2013
What is a physician to do when caught between the competing values of confidentiality and the life of a patient? A specialist in addiction medicine struggles with this quandary.
Touch: A Surgery Rotation | Claire Unis | SPRING 2021
Swing dancing provides solace for a medical student who finds she is losing herself in the de-humanization of “abscess service.”
Try To Turn a Cowboy Vegan | Towela King | SPRING 2023
A nonbinary medical student gives care to a cowboy and confronts prejudice within.
Turbulent Undertow | Mikayla Brockmeyer | FALL 2020
Metaphorical approach to the waves we ride in life; literally.
The Turkish Student | Heba Haleem | SPRING 2022
Simple acts of kindness find a way to bring a baby into the world in a Syrian refugee camp.
Two Minutes | Tim Cunningham | FALL 2016
The meaning of the moment, minute, hour on the life and death of a young boy and his nurse.
Under the Wreckage, An Ocean | M. Sophia Newman | FALL 2018
Making sense of trauma through dreams of two buildings that no longer stand
Untarnished | Ali Rizvi | FALL 2020
After a patient reveals a racist bent, his longtime physician questions his own moral choices.
Until You're Blue in the Face | Katie Kress | SPRING 2015
A woman navigates her recent diagnosis of PTSD through self-reflection.
The Unwanted Familiar | Sarah Gurley-Green | FALL 2019
There’s no easy way to uproot the worm in your skull.
Vacant Lots | Laura Anne White | SPRING 2019
Death, on a daily basis, wears on a clinician’s soul. Sometimes, imagining ‘how it might have been’ for a patient, can be a resolution.
The Valleys Between Us | Sophia Gauthier | FALL 2024
Tena means, again, in Swahili, as an American pediatric fellow observes in the ‘death book' at a children’s hospital in Eldoret, Kenya.
Vigil | Julie Freedman | SPRING 2021
A physician reflects on encounters with a woman and her husband near the end of the woman’s life—a woman who loves to garden, who asks for a sandwich, who “wants control.”
Waiting | Shireen Heidari | SPRING 2022
At the end it is not always a test or an exam that provides an answer, sometimes it is touch.
Warmth is a Measure of Time | Dora Chen | SPRING 2022
What does the future hold for a young couple in the delivery room? A young doctor’s meditation.
Weight Loss | Carmela McIntire | FALL 2021
A grieving wife remembers —and tries to understand—her late husband's deadly obsession
"Wanna Play Doctor?" | Lauren Kascak | SPRING 2014
During a pre-med program in Ghana, a student questions her role in a medical mission.
Watch and Wait | Orly Farber | SPRING 2019
When cancer is in the family, it’s not always easy for a clinician to be an onlooker.
Watching | Thom Schwarz | SPRING 2015
Family and caregiver know the end is near for a patient and witness it in different ways.
Wednesdays and Sundays | Susan Wigoda | SPRING 2014
A mother reflects on caring for her son after he was diagnosed with leukemia by recalling the Wednesdays and Sundays when she would change the dressing on his central line.
Weight | Karen Germain | SPRING 2020
The burden of grief can be a heavy load.
We Knew Her In Death | Laila Knio | SPRING 2020
On medical matters of the heart.
We Name Our Snakes | Nancy Huggett | SPRING 2022
Winner takes all: A board game becomes both a diversion and a metaphor as a family experiences profound changes.
What a Wonderful World | Stefanie Stockhamer | FALL 2023
Music creates a clarifying moment for a patient and doctor. Isn’t it time to sing along?
What I Never Got to Tell You | Michelle Silver | SPRING 2022
A physician sees patients’ experiences through the lens of her own father’s journey.
What of the Hives | Maddie Norris | SPRING 2018
A woman interrogates the etiology and etymology of her idiopathic case of hives.
What She Left Me | Ellis Avery | FALL 2015
Pain and Memory. A writer remembers her mother through the illness they share.
What Sticks | Madison Palmer | FALL-WINTER 2025-26
On a road trip with her Auntie, a clinician considers her deep ties to her family of nurses.
What We See When We See Each Other | Catherine Klatzker | SPRING 2015
A woman is confronted with another side of herself as she seeks a new form of healing.
When Suicide Speaks Arabic | Ibrahim Sablaban | FALL 2020
A breathtaking illustration of cultural differences surrounding mental illness and how not to make assumptions.
Where Nobody Can Follow | Gary Hunter | SPRING 2018
The pathfinder: A man faces a series of cancers with strength and courage.
Where the White Coat Hangs | Michelle Byrne | SPRING 2016
What are the true tasks of a physician in the burn unit? A student learns, quickly.
Where Words Fail | Avina Rami | SPRING2025
In a clinic in the Guatemalan Highlands, a young doctor finds a lasting lesson in a patient her own age.
Who's Counting | Beth Leibson | SPRING 2016
A woman shares a new perspective on cancer cells as they intersect with her life.
Why Compassion? | Martha Nance | FALL 2018
A physician’s musings on “com-passion” with patients with neurodegenerative diseases
"Why Don't They Just Call It That?" Conversations That Fail To Communicate | Pratyusha Yalamanchi | SPRING 2016
Sometimes, no matter how much time is spent explaining a procedure, doctors and patients find it hard to understand what the other is truly saying.
Wind Tunnel | Kenneth Weinberg | SPRING 2017
A couple's denial astounds even the most seasoned ER physician.
Without the Violence | Mercedes Frankl | | SPRING 2015
A doctor parallels her own personal narrative on love and health with those of her patients.
The Witness | Yoshiko Iwai | SPRING 2019
On shadowing, and what it takes to listen and understand.
The Work of Love | Amanda Ruth | FALL 2024
Connecting the emotions—hugging her child at home and treating children at work —prompts deep reflection on a daily basis for a pediatric intensivist.
Yom Kippur | Lisa Gruenberg | SPRING 2014
Remembering a father, recovering lost moments of history, through words and snapshots.
Your Little Heart Still Stands | Alexis Rehrmann | SPRING 2022
After moments of loss and grief, a family project unites and brings a measure of healing.
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