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Empathy Matters

Dr. Joan Naidorf is an emergency physician, author and speaker located in Alexandria, VA.

Her book, “Changing How we Think About Difficult Patients: a Guide for Physicians and Healthcare Professionals,” is published by the American Association for Physician Leadership.

Twin Telepathy

Written by Antonio Igbokidi

Heis a MS4 at TCU & UNTHSC School of Medicine|Class of 2024.

He is National Chairperson for @SNMA

He is an Aspiring Psychiatrist and a Poet

Nigeria Nostalgia

Written by Antonio Igbokidi

Heis a MS4 at TCU & UNTHSC School of Medicine|Class of 2024.

He is National Chairperson for @SNMA

He is an Aspiring Psychiatrist and a Poet

Insomnia

Julene Tripp Weaver, a psychotherapist and writer in Seattle, worked in AIDS services for twenty-one years. Her third poetry collection, truth be bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards, won the Bisexual Book Award and four Human Relations Indie Book Awards.

For a Friend on the Morning of His Wife’s Surgery

Jason Tandon is the author of five books of poetry, including This Far North, The Actual World, Quality of Life, and Give over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt, winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award from Black Lawrence Press.

This poem was originally published in the Southern Poetry Review.

Fighter

Frederic Foote MD is physician who lives near Washington DC. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Commonweal, The Progressive, and The South Carolina Review. My 2014 book of war poetry, Medic Against Bomb, won the Grayson Poetry Prize and other honors

(www.medicagainstbomb.com).

Spotify Playlist: “Spin Cycle”

Dr. Vanessa Vélez is a resident physician in Psychiatry at Hackensack Meridian Health Ocean Medical Center in New Jersey.

Her website is https://www.vanessavelezmd.com/.