SPOTLIGHT -
July 12th 2024
"...the beauty still intoxicating, the spirit of the research like a child swimming for the first time in the sea, awed..."
July 11th 2024
"By now I’ve lost track of time with this boy who reminds me of myself when I imagined becoming a doctor..."
July 5th 2024
"Remember? Remember wanting to play every minute, as if that was why we were born?"
June 28th 2024
"How free is our will if our fate is decided by our melanin. What is the meaning of Black lives when so many people don’t think we matter?"
June 21st 2024
"Of all the questions you might want to ask about angels, the only one you ever hear is how many can dance on the head of a pin..."
Aubade and Regression
"I scribble as if my father is beside me years and years ago, scoring whole-notes, white holes through rims of night."
Phone Therapy
"In the silence I could feel the air slip in and out of his lungs and the moment when the motion reversed, like a goldfish making the turn at the glass end of its tank..."
Enjoy This Time
A fourth-year medical student reflects on leaving medical and entering residency—and all the patients who impacted their life.
"Chemistry Lesson"
"I was a Jewish boy from the Jersey burbs raised on corned beef and Milano cookies. She was a Mennonite farmgirl whose father shot deer for dinner."
Thanatophobia
A psychiatrist reflects on the fears resulting from real life experiences...
Your Brain Is Not a Prison!
"The sand stuck in an hourglass? Your brain is like stop it."
The Babcock Building
“Things change. People come and go. You quietly remain…”
Contemplating Retirement
"Patients get better, treatments end..."
A Psychiatrist Reflects on Black Poetry Day
Celebrating and honoring Black Poetry Day...
Genuphobia
Reflections through poetry after a moving visit...
"Summer, Like the Body"
"You feel in your bones the gray gravity of late August clouds..."
The New Colossus
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore..."
Nightmare on Humanity Street
A Halloween reflection on stigma...
Garden of Meaning
Reflections on the bounty of life...
Coexistence
A psychiatrist reflects on trauma, healing, and growth...
"Contemplating Retirement"
"Patients get better, treatments end, openings appear in my schedule and I leave them open..."
Passing through Albuquerque
"Moments like that, you can love this country..."
Summer Kitchen
"We ate, and talked, and went to bed, And slept. It was a miracle."
"Grappelli’s Smile"
Unity
On this September 11th—and always—we strive for unity...
At the Pitch
"If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness..."
Decisions
A psychiatrist reflects on decisions...
Grappelli’s Smile
"...Then twenty years swing by and I’m riffing chords on my father’s old D’Angelico, Grappelli’s photo clipped to the stand, an image captured the night he owned the ballroom stage, me on the dance floor..."
Summer, Like the Body
“Summer, like the body, bends slowly toward its end…”
Joy
"I'm thinking about how good it is to have been sick, to have been turned inside out..."
Advice from a Raindrop
"You think you’re too small to make a difference?"
Skilcraft Visible Man Anatomy Kit, 1960
"And when she allows our eyes to meet my joy from her gift pleases her more than I can understand on this birthday she loved to call my first day of medical school."
The Hummingbird: A Seduction
"...I would take you and take you and take you deep into any kind of nest you ever wanted."
"Skilcraft Visible Man Anatomy Kit, 1960"
"Lost in the anatomy of wonder, moments pass before I catch my mother’s smile while she pretends to dust her shelves..."
Some Words for the Graduates
One psychiatrist shares some words of wisdom for the class of 2022.