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Re-Radiance
This poem was originally published in the Radar Poetry Journal.
Amy Miller’s writing has appeared in Barrow Street, Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, Nimrod, Rattle, RHINO, Terrain, Tupelo Quarterly, Willow Springs, ZYZZYVA, Fine Gardening, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and many editions of the Poet’s Market. She is the editor-in-chief of the small boutique publisher Cyclone Press.
Ms. Amy Miller can be reached at:
http://writers-island.blogspot.com/
One Less Thing to Worry About
Cartoon by Tim Cordell
Private practice pearls: How to search for unclaimed funds from the state comptroller.
Eric Dessner is the founder and CEO of Medmic.com
He is an ophthalmologist in private practice in Brooklyn, NY.
Doctor, Doctor:
River Elizabeth Hall (she/her) is a poet and naturalist with degrees from Fairhaven College and Antioch University Seattle. Her work has appeared in Bear Review, Main Street Rag, Moist Poetry, Nimrod, Parentheses Journal and Tinderbox among others.
She is a 2023 Best of the Net Nominee and winner of Tinderbox Poetry’s 2022 Majda Gama Editor’s Prize. In 2021, she was a semi-finalist in the The Floating Bridge Chapbook competition and was long-listed for the Palette Poetry Prize and the Frontier Open. She is the founder of Seattle Writers Circle, an online workshop series dedicated to creating supportive community, inclusion and creative exploration for writers of all genres and abilities. Learn more about her writing and other offerings at RiverElizabethHall.com
The psychological harm from health insurance denials to patients and physicians cannot be undone
JL Lycette, MD, is a hematologist/oncologist and writer in rural Oregon. Her medical perspective and narrative medicine essays can be found in NEJM, JAMA, Journal of Clinical Oncology, The ASCO Post, Medscape, and Doximity, among other places.
Her debut novel, a speculative medical thriller, THE ALGORITHM WILL SEE YOU NOW (Black Rose Writing Press), is out now. See more of her writing on her website, https://jenniferlycette.com, and connect with her on Twitter @JL_Lycette
How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
This article was orginalluy published by Propublica on March 25, 2023
https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-pxdx-medical-health-insurance-rejection-claims
Burn It Up
Alexis Del Cid is a journalist and TV anchor for The University of Kansas Health System Medical News Network.
She Is also an EMMY winner.
With Thanks to Dr. Parvataneni
Naomi Dean teaches ESL at a public elementary school in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, where she lives with her husband, son, and daughter. Naomi’s work has recently appeared in Poetica, Sylvia, The Madrigal, NiftyLit, Collateral, Plainsongs and JAMA.