Medmic

Haiku: Why Pediatrics

Originally from Toronto, Canada, Marthena Phan is a medical student at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in Miami set to graduate with her MD in 2026 and pursuing a career in child neurology. Since starting her fourth and last year of medical school, Marthena now has significantly more free time to engage in her first and true passion: writing.

PTSD 3 Years On

Bruce Knox is New Zealander who encountered a significant medical complication during a routine ablation. 

As part of his overall recovery, he has collected together a range of poetic expressions that I have crafted that tell the story and share some of the thoughts and feelings. 

This is a song and the lyrics he wrote: