Personal Narrative
Spring 2024: Connection
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Reflections on connection: An Interchange by two healers
By: Shobana Ramasamy and Linda Carozza
“We are now recording. Tell us about yourselves.”… -
Is there a doctor in the house?
By: Kyla Chackochan, Keziah Chackochan, Sneha Chacko
“No hugs, don’t touch me!” Then,a quick run to the laundry room to strip out of her scrubs and directly into the shower- were the first things our physician mother would do when she would get home from work during the COVID-19 pandemic…
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Hedgehog Captains
By: Luke Bonanni
Got to slip on some shoes. They're already tied, great! Glance at the clock, no time to waste…
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Speaking medicine
By: Alison Cline
I’m still, my hand hovering, ready to knock at the door. It feels like the scream floor from Monster’s Inc… -
The Weather within
By: Keith Radler
The signs are familiar: a thickness to the air, dark clouds overhead, a heavenly rumble in the distance, and 58 million Americans may feel a stirring in their bones: a storm is brewing…
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Long division
By: Sofia Castiglioni
She gripped the handlebars harder as the cobblestones sent vibrations through the bicycle tires that made her teeth chatter and the beads of sweat on her back trickle down like raindrops racing down the car window in a storm…
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Staying alive at all costs
By: Olivia Descorbeth
It is, perhaps, obvious to say that medicine should improve one’s health. But, what does it mean to improve health when death is imminent?
Fall 2023: Isolation
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Shades of a shadow
By: Jesus Garcia
It was a clear morning and Brooklyn had that particular feeling that you don’t get in any other part of the city…
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A Borrowed fan for a dying man
By: Allison Taffet
The VA elevators are quick, but the air is sticky…
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Room 1453
By: Christina Oh
Stoicism…Anxious…And then, there is everything else in between…
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The Sound of healing
By: Nicholas Renton
”Doctor, I only have one complaint.” Only one?… -
The First
By: Alessandra Marcone
Is this your first code?…
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Bonsai
By: Kathy Chu
When I was 23 years old, my grandfather asked me if there was anything I could do to help him…
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Emotional aloneness vs. loneliness
By: Anita Sacks
When the COVID pandemic initiated a lockdown…
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Illness in isolation
By: Heidi Dong
I met her in clinic. A mother, bringing her baby to the pediatric ophthalmologist… -
If our insides could speak
By: Natalie Kennedy
Her shriveled silhouette lay still among the shadows as the probe peered beyond the slatted ivory cage…
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Profound experience
By: Mariya L.Fabisevich
It’s funny how medicine can be both a cure and a poison at the same time, and medical experiences can run deep in your veins long after your treatment finishes…
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The Morbid anatomy of disconnection
By: Rebecca Folkerth
How can this happen, you might ask? Was this woman invisible?…