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A Story of Artistic Reclamation (2019)

Here I am, come and get me! A playful provocation we have all used with much more than literal meaning as a mantra. But going through the rigors, chills and metaphorical bacteremia of medical education, I lost some of the pieces that made me confident to be myself.

March 30, 2019

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Clinical, Featured, Housestaff Wellness, Pediatrics, Poetry

Mastectomy Shadows

by Shirin Karimi, MD

I used to joke that after having my twin girls, my breasts no longer belonged to me. / Forget about possession, let’s talk about existence.

March 30, 2019

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Clinical, Featured, Internal Medicine, Poetry

Clinical, OB/GYN, Poetry

T-Cell

“One” / It read. / Unassuming in black and white

Clinical, Internal Medicine, Poetry

A Second Home (2019)

Scared and frightened, we came in as interns / We had the knowledge, but we needed direction

Clinical, Family Medicine, Opinions

Two Oceans: Rape Culture in Medicine

The sky angry. The waters murky. The fear that at any moment a sudden undertow may drag you deeper into violent waters. A creature brushes your leg, friend or...

Clinical, Neurology, Poetry

I Seize

I seize. / With emotion, not motor.

Clinical, Poetry, Surgery

Pondering the Human Experience: A Quartet of Poems

To help a soul / To heal a wound / To hold a hand / To walk again

Clinical, Featured, Housestaff Wellness, Pediatrics, Poetry

A Story of Artistic Reclamation (2019)

Here I am, come and get me! A playful provocation we have all used with much more than literal meaning as a mantra. But going through the rigors, chills...

Clinical, Pathology, Poetry

My Allegiance

Collide, Rip, Shred / Microthrombi ahead / Schistocytes I discover

Clinical, Internal Medicine, Poetry

Poodle Blue

Like most times on call, the day had been busy. / I’d been running in circles, my head in a tizzy.

Clinical, Featured, Internal Medicine, Poetry

Mastectomy Shadows

I used to joke that after having my twin girls, my breasts no longer belonged to me. / Forget about possession, let’s talk about existence.

Clinical, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Poetry

Atrophied Dreams

I waited for nine months to meet you. / I know that one night I loved a woman and then you, a blackberry of cells, found your place in...

Clinical, Poetry, Psychiatry

What My Parents Think I Do vs. What I Actually Do During Overnight Call

I recorded a time-lapse video of an entire night of in-house overnight call at the hospital. Mom & Dad -- I love how you think of me, but this...

Columns, Housestaff Wellness, Intern Year, Pocket Doodles: My First Year as a Physician, Poetry

Pocket Doodles: My First Year as a Physician, Installation #4

Neurology resident physician Nita Chen, MD journals through her first year of residency in her graphic medicine column, Pocket Doodles: My First Year as a Physician.

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