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Still Learning: Covid Through The Eyes Of A Medical Student, Alexis Strahan
Still Learning: Covid Through The Eyes Of A Medical Student, Alexis Strahan
HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine
As a first-year medical student when the COVID-19 pandemic found a foothold, I felt an overwhelming amount of emotions that accompanied the pandemic’s spread. Fear, although a reasonable choice, was not the first emotion that I experienced. In fact, it was a general feeling of paralysis. I had not six months prior taken an oath to commit my career and life to the service of the public’s health care needs, yet I could provide little more than the textbook knowledge of biochemistry or genetics from my first semester of learning. My hands felt unarmed and unskilled for the fight. What …
Excerpt From: {Being About To Ascend}, Steven B. Katz
Excerpt From: {Being About To Ascend}, Steven B. Katz
Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine
This poem constitutes a different take on the theme of this special issue of Survive and Thrive—“Diversity and Community in Narrative Medicine and the Medical Humanities.” An excerpt from a longer poem under development, the poem here is a story of human frailty and limitation at the end of Anthropocene, the end of the age of humans on Earth—perhaps sometime in the not-too-distant future. This poem is thus a “speculative” or “science fiction” story about what happens to a species indigenous and totally adapted to and dependent on the Earth, and which cannot survive anywhere else, must. Facing extinction, the …
Editors’ Note To Vol 5: Issue 1: On Publishing Survive And Thrive: Journal Of Medical Humanities And Narrative Medicine During The 2020 Global Pandemic, Steven B. Katz, Suzanne Black
Editors’ Note To Vol 5: Issue 1: On Publishing Survive And Thrive: Journal Of Medical Humanities And Narrative Medicine During The 2020 Global Pandemic, Steven B. Katz, Suzanne Black
Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine
This Editors' Note reflects the thoughts and feelings of the Editors of _Survive and Thrive_ on Vol 5: Issue 1, summarizes its contents, and reflects on the publication of the issue during a global pandemic. While the issue is not a direct response to the pandemic, the Editors humbly offer it as what writer, rhetorician, and literary critic Kenneth Burke called "equipment for living."
Consented End, Rabia Mazhar
Consented End, Rabia Mazhar
HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine
This poem is a reflection upon my personal experience of taking care of a young patient with post-partum sepsis and multi-organ failure following the delivery of her second child. She was able to spend one night at home with her family before suddenly decompensating and becoming encephalopathic. In her last moments awake, she relayed to the EMS her wishes of being placed in hospice. The poem narrates her spouse’s internal struggle after respecting the patient’s wishes of withdrawal of care.
Anatomic By Adam Dickinson, Heather Houser
Anatomic By Adam Dickinson, Heather Houser
The Goose
Review of Adam Dickinson's Anatomic.