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The Bubble Pops

Posted on December 24, 2022Posted by medmic
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Rishi Doshi, MD is a medical retina specialist with Kaiser Permanente in Orange County, California.

I wrote this poem after seeing dozens of social media posts by medical students who did not match into a residency spot on Monday. The Match is the system by which medical students and residency programs rank each other and then get paired up by a computer algorithm; the results are revealed on Match Day, which can be an emotional tidal wave as students find out where they’re going to spend the next few years, and some find out that their futures are suddenly in question. They can join the Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP) to try and lock down an unmatched position, or try again next year. ⁣

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I Find on Bethlehem Evidence of Our Passing

Posted on December 17, 2022Posted by medmic
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Woods Nash, MPH, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the University of Houston Fertitta Family College of Medicine.

His poems and essays have appeared in Medmic, 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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Office Visit

Posted on December 12, 2022Posted by medmic
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Ona Gritz’s poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Bellevue Literary Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, One Art, and many other journals and anthologies. Her books include Geode, a finalist for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, Present Imperfect: Essays, and August Or Forever, a middle grade novel forthcoming in February 2023.

Recent honors include two Notable mentions in The Best American Essays, a Best Life Story in Salon,and a winning entry in The Poetry Archive Now: Wordview 2020 project.

Her poem “Office Visit” first appeared in One Art.

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Deep Sleep

Posted on December 7, 2022Posted by medmic
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Kelly R. Samuels is the author of the full-length collection All the Time in the World (Kelsay Books) and two chapbooks: Words Some of Us Rarely Use and Zeena/Zenobia Speaks.

She is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee with work appearing in The Massachusetts Review, Court Green and RHINO. She lives in the Upper Midwest.

Website: https://www.krsamuels.com/

Instagram: @kellyrsamuels