Persian Shield
Jean Liew MD MS is a rheumatologist and clinical researcher at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center
Medmic: by healthcare workers
Eyes Open
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.
More Than a Body
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.
Eyes of Glass
Biography:
My name is Daniel Rose, MD, and I am a pediatric resident at Emory University in Atlanta, GA whose experiences in medicine continually shape how I understand vulnerability, mortality, and human connection. I began writing poetry in middle school and was drawn to it as a way to express thoughts and emotions freely, without the constraints of formal grammar or structure, a freedom that continues to ground me amid the rigors of clinical life.
Holiday Spirit Poems
As a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellow on an inpatient unit over the holiday season, I wrote these pieces to capture the quiet ironies, fleeting joys, and subtle rhythms of life in the unit.
Winter Workers Poetry Series
Written by Eric Dessner MD. Dr. Dessner is an ophthalmologist in private practice in Brooklyn, NY and the founder and CEO of Medmic.com.
Not Looking Away
Kathy Ray retired in 2024 from 30 years as a PA in the fields of dermatology, cardiology and internal medicine in the Albany, New York area. Patients’ stories often inspired poetry, but it was relegated to sticky notes. Now, words get their due.
Congruity
The poem is by Mufakir Bhanain, which is a pen name for Drs. Pamela Butler and Fatima Shad (see bio below). Dr. Butler lives in New York City and Dr. Shad lives in Sydney, Australia.
Brief bio: Mufakir Bhanain is the union of two neuroscientists (Drs. Pamela Butler and Fatima Shad), who write poetry together. Mufakir means thinker and Bhanain means sister.
Spring/ Summer 2025 Haiku Contest Winner
Nimish Garg a 4th-year medical student at the USC Keck School of Medicine, planning to become an internal medicine physician. He writes poetry as a creative outlet to reflect on and navigate both the triumphs and challenges of learning the art of medicine.
Spring/Summer 2025 Poetry Contest Winner Announced
Bio: Priscilla Duran Luciano, MD, is a research fellow in cardiovascular epidemiology and an emerging poet based in New York City. Passionate about the heart in both clinical and poetic senses, she writes at the intersection of medicine, identity, love, and resilience.