Medmic: Poetry

Haiku: Why Pediatrics

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Originally from Toronto, Canada, Marthena Phan is a medical student at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in Miami set to graduate with her MD in 2026 and pursuing a career in child neurology. Since starting her fourth and last year of medical school, Marthena now has significantly more free time to engage in her first and true passion: writing.

PTSD 3 Years On

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Bruce Knox is New Zealander who encountered a significant medical complication during a routine ablation. 

As part of his overall recovery, he has collected together a range of poetic expressions that I have crafted that tell the story and share some of the thoughts and feelings. 

This is a song and the lyrics he wrote:

The Tightrope

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Nary Sun is a registered nurse with a background in the
medical intensive care unit as well as outpatient settings.
What inspired her to write poetry is that “it helps her deal with all the
emotions that being in the healthcare entails from sadness and loss to
the joy of new life.”

Haiku: After the Laceration Repair

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Phoebe Prioleau MD is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and have published creative work in Doximity, The Living Hand, Annals of Internal Medicine, and The Journal of Medical Humanities. She writes poetry as a way of holding on to patients and their stories and carving out space for them.