Written by Arthur Allen. Originally published by Kaiser Heath News.
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Ms. Lori Levy has had her poems published in numerous literary journals, both print and online, and in medical and medical humanities journals, such as JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, Ars Medica, Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine, The Examined Life Journal, and The Pharos. She lives with her extended family in Los Angeles, CA.
Susan Baumgaertel MD practices Internal Medicine “virtually’ from Seattle, WA.
She is the founder of www.myMDadvocate.com and the informational website, www.MenopauseMenu.com
Submitted by Jane Newkirk, Occupational Therapist, Select Speccialty Hospital, Jackson, MS.
Adam Lalley is a physician in New York City. He is a winner of the Michael E. DeBakey Poetry Award and the William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition. His writing has appeared in ACEP Now, The Healing Muse, STAT, and the Journal of Medical Humanities.
This poem was originally published in the Fall 2020 issue of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine (www.theintima.org).
Woods Nash, MPH, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the University of Houston
His poems and essays have appeared in JAMA, Academic Medicine, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, JGIM, Annals of Internal Medicine, and the Bellevue Literary Review. He is from Glasgow, Kentucky
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