Sarah Ali is an MD/MPH student at the UAB Heersink School of Medicine. Through her writing, she hopes to bring greater attention to the lived experiences of patients and to the parts of illness and care that can be overlooked in clinical medicine.
Tabitha Abraham is a PGY-1 from Houston, TX. This piece was inspired by the resilience she witnessed during her time in rehabilitation medicine. It reflects the courage, persistence, and hope that can shape the journey toward recovery.
Jacob Taylor is an MD candidate at the University of Utah School of Medicine with interests in general surgery, rural health, and health systems improvement. My submission, “Single Use,” reflects on the environmental cost of modern surgical care.
Angelette Pham is a first year medical student at VCU School of Medicine, who started writing poetry in her medical humanities classes in college. She strives to maintain her love for words and medicine as she continues on the path to becoming a physician.
Jane Buell MD is an Otolaryngology resident at the University of Colorado. She enjoys writing poetry to organize her thoughts and emotions tied to tragedies witnessed at work.
Jean Liew MD MS is a rheumatologist and clinical researcher at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center
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.
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.
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.
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.