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The Children Are Worth It

by Melissa Huddleston, MD

In the 3rd grade I made a declaration, regarding my future occupation – I would one day be a physician, specifically, a pediatrician! Devoted to serving and caring for others, like the one who cared for me, my sister, and brothers Of course, I did not know what this would entail and never considered that I could fail. How could I have anticipated that...

March 27, 2025
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Art & Poetry in Medicine, Clinical, Featured

For Whom We Cry

by Melissa Huddleston, MD

For the baby who’s been battered and bruised and for the adolescent already multiple times abused. For the children whose lives are so full of pain that they think their days are lived in vain. For parents overwhelmed with grief over a precious life that was far too brief. For the siblings who grow up too soon, as they watch how their loved ones...

March 3, 2025
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Art & Poetry in Medicine, Featured, Pediatrics

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The Children Are Worth It

In the 3rd grade I made a declaration, regarding my future occupation – I would one day be a physician, specifically, a pediatrician! Devoted to serving and caring for...

March 27, 2025
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Art & Poetry in Medicine, Featured, Pediatrics

For Whom We Cry

For the baby who’s been battered and bruised and for the adolescent already multiple times abused. For the children whose lives are so full of pain that they think...

March 3, 2025
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Most Wonderful Time

‘Twas the day after Christmas and all was not well. In a string of unfortunate events that would make Lemony Snicket jealous, my father had come down with the...

December 12, 2024
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Art & Poetry in Medicine, Featured

The Room in the Corner

Still lungs. / Silent heart. / Time of death: 2:40.

September 17, 2024
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Our Haus, Our Humanity: Lessons from the Queer Community That Can Help Heal Medicine

Since the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 protests against systemic racism, efforts toward eradicating the effects of bias and discrimination in medicine has reentered the national consciousness. While this is...

August 13, 2024
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Art & Poetry in Medicine, Featured

Milestones

Wrinkly face and wonky head; I support your wobbly neck. No matter the emotion, you respond with a cry.

June 13, 2024
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Art & Poetry in Medicine

A Tale of Two Worlds

It was the most joyful of times. It was the most horrific of times. A week before my first child was born, an act of terror occurred on the other side of the world.

May 16, 2024
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Art & Poetry in Medicine, Featured

HANK YO

My fire escape, green from decades of wear and tear, bears flecks of paint that barely cling after gusts of wind and sheets of snow and showers of rain....

May 15, 2024
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Featured, Housestaff Wellness

Contemplating Death with New Life

Very early in the morning on Wednesday, October 18, 2023, I stumbled into the emergency department with my hair in a tangled mess and accidentally still wearing my house...

May 9, 2024
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Clinical, Columns, Featured, Internal Medicine, Surviving IM/G

What Are You Going to Do When You Grow Up? My Slither of Hope

It is very difficult to believe that I am already more than halfway done with residency at this point, and that it is time to figure out what I...

March 27, 2024
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Clinical, Featured, Intern Year, Internal Medicine

Surviving Residency When Your Fiancé Has Cancer: Part 3

The second week of September was the epitome of emotional whiplash. Monday the 12th, we celebrated our one-year engagement anniversary in the ICU. We had gotten engaged in an...

March 20, 2024
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Clinical, Featured, Intern Year, Internal Medicine

Surviving Residency When Your Fiancé Has Cancer: Part 2

I had just started my residency in Burlington, Vermont when she started having symptoms again. She was to receive her treatment in Rochester, New York, which meant we were...

March 13, 2024
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