Jacob Taylor is an MD candidate at the University of Utah School of Medicine with interests in general surgery, rural health, and health systems improvement. My submission, “Single Use,” reflects on the environmental cost of modern surgical care.
Angelette Pham is a first year medical student at VCU School of Medicine, who started writing poetry in her medical humanities classes in college. She strives to maintain her love for words and medicine as she continues on the path to becoming a physician.
Eric Dessner MD is an ophthalmologist in Brooklyn, NY.
Jean Liew MD MS is a rheumatologist and clinical researcher at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center
Tamara Salih is a physician and poet based in the west coast of Canada with her partner and four children. She is interested in how power shapes identity, in speaking about and from marginalization and the interior world of medicine.
Jacquelyn Elise Fitzgerald is a medical student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine, involved in clinical and surgical outcomes research and community-based patient care, with interests in medical humanities and reflective writing.
Written by Eric Dessner MD. Dr. Dessner is an ophthalmologist in private practice in Brooklyn, NY and the founder and CEO of Medmic.com.
“Soulshine
It’s better than sunshine
It’s better than moonshine
It’s sure better than rain”
Cartoon by Randy Glasbergen
