Sarah Ali is an MD/MPH student at the UAB Heersink School of Medicine. Through her writing, she hopes to bring greater attention to the lived experiences of patients and to the parts of illness and care that can be overlooked in clinical medicine.

Tabitha Abraham is a PGY-1 from Houston, TX. This piece was inspired by the resilience she witnessed during her time in rehabilitation medicine. It reflects the courage, persistence, and hope that can shape the journey toward recovery.

Jane Buell MD is an Otolaryngology resident at the University of Colorado. She enjoys writing poetry to organize her thoughts and emotions tied to tragedies witnessed at work.

Biography:
My name is Daniel Rose, MD, and I am a pediatric resident at Emory University in Atlanta, GA whose experiences in medicine continually shape how I understand vulnerability, mortality, and human connection. I began writing poetry in middle school and was drawn to it as a way to express thoughts and emotions freely, without the constraints of formal grammar or structure, a freedom that continues to ground me amid the rigors of clinical life.

As a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellow on an inpatient unit over the holiday season, I wrote these pieces to capture the quiet ironies, fleeting joys, and subtle rhythms of life in the unit.