Medmic: by healthcare workers

Five Poems from Robert Carr

Before turning to poetry, Robert Carr administered infectious disease programming with The Massachusetts Department of Public Health. He is the author of Amaranth, published by Indolent Books, and two full-length collections published by 3: A Taos Press – The Unbuttoned Eye and The Heavy of Human Clouds. His poetry appears in many journals and magazines including the Greensboro Review, Lana Turner Journal, the Massachusetts Review and Shenandoah. Recent teaching engagements and residencies include Monson Arts and The Millay House Rockland. Additional information can be found at robertcarr.org

Smash It Up!

Jennifer Caputo-Seidler, MD is a hospitalist and educator in Tampa, FL. Her writings have appeared on KevinMD, STATNews, and SheMD.

Intake Checklist (please don’t put me in a box)

Tarah is a physical therapist by background, currently working in the role of a work-health coach with VT RETAIN, a grant-funded program through the State of Vermont Department of Labor. She is a patient with long COVID and participates in the Dartmouth Hitchcock Long COVID Writing Group, during which she writes poetry.

AI Ally

Isabelle Tran is a rising third year medical student at the Burnett School of Medicine at Texas Christian University.

What’s in a Name?

Patricia Cannon has been a Registered Nurse at UCSF since 2001. She has worked in cardiac critical care, neuro intensive care, hemeoncology, school nursing, and currently, in research. Her passion is her faith, photography, and the written word in all its forms. “What’s in a Name?” was previously published in the Beyond Words Literary Journal edited by Gal Slonim.

The Softest Cloth

Joanne Clarkson is a poet whose sixth poetry collection, “Hospice House,” was released by MoonPath Press in 2023. Her poems have been published in such journals as Poetry Northwest, The Healing Muse, Examined Life Journal, American Journal of Nursing and Beloit Poetry Journal. She has received an Artist Trust Grant and an NEH grant to teach poetry in rural libraries. Clarkson has Masters Degrees in English and Library Science, has taught and worked for many years as a professional librarian. After caring for her mother through a long illness, she re-careered as a Registered Nurse working in Home Health and Hospice. This poem first appeared in Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Find her at http://Joanneclarkson.com.

Inspiration

Patricia Cannon has been a Registered Nurse at UCSF since 2001. She has worked in cardiac critical care, neurointensive care, hemeoncology, school nursing, and currently, in research. Her passion is her faith, photography, and the written word in all its forms. “Inspiration” has been published on the Viewless Wings podcast by James Morehead, Beyond Words literary magazine edited by Gal Slonim, and in the “Wholeness” a Wising Up Anthology edited by Heather Tosteson and Charles D. Brockett.

Spectacle

Claire Unis MD MFA is a pediatrician and author of a memoir about drawing on diverse experiences in the process of becoming a doctor, titled Balance, Pedal, Breathe: A Journey through Medical School. She facilitates writing workshops, narrative medicine sessions, and discussions of literature for her medical group in northern California. Her writing has appeared in Intima, East Iowa Review, Awakenings Review, and The Examined Life. Find her at www.claireunis.net, or on social media, @literaryartinmedicine.