When a Man Loves a Woman

When a man loves a woman he places a wedding band on trembling anticipating fingers Now thirty years ago... confetti, white veils and...

Bronwyn Wada-Gill

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reflections on a new garment

My short white coat i s too big. I thought i t might be the right size-- But The sleeves, too long The pockets, empty And I ’m never sure...

Sara Wang

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A Hospital Room

Here I am again, holding your hand in this cold hospital room where the noise of the monitors and devices never fall silent. I guess I...

Anonymous

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Daffodils

Daffodils will always make me think of COVID now. When my dad was sick with COVID in the hospital and we couldn’t visit him and he was...

Marya Pulaski

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Some notes from my phone this summer

May 30, 2020: Back on the wards as a fourth year, rotating with the Infectious Disease team for the month. What a sobering, strange,...

Marya Pulaski

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Scribing

With late April, came so many text threads among different family members. My dad was hospitalized with COVID, and my sisters, mom, and...

Marya Pulaski

2 min read

NYE Toast

As I put on my best outfit And pour bubbly in my glass, I think back with grace And I must admit Of the complexities brought en masse....

Anonymous

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Time Away from Medicine

On Thanksgiving, outside of my parent’s home in New Hampshire, my fiancée Martha and I play with my niece Audrey, who is now almost 2...

Anonymous

4 min read

inconsequential

I am backlogged and congested I am frustrated and unfeeling but Pacified. Honesty and I are trying to make it, I swear. I’m trying to...

Anika Maya Obasiolu

1 min read

For Me

For me, the worst part of having COVID is not actually having COVID, but instead the constant worry and anxiety about who I may have...

Anonymous

2 min read

This pandemic took things from us

This pandemic took things from us. Sometimes I feel “lucky”…I do not know anyone who has passed from COVID-19, I didn’t have to miss my...

Paige Comerford

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Adjusting to Third Year Rotations During COVID-19

Early May marked a period of great uncertainty for many rising 3rd-year medical students at UMass. The COVID-19 pandemic ensured that a...

Sheikh Moinul

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Fibrillation of the Heart

In the clinic, I had planned to see patients A few days early Because… I had something else that needed to be done several days later. So...

Dr. Dave Hatem

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stolen breaths

to breathe is the easiest thing simple physics, the path of least resistance inhale, exhale it’s the easiest thing until it isn’t “I...

Megan Hansen

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Response to an exercise asking medical students to grocery shop on a SNAP budget:

Doing this exercise and reading over each question listed brought me memories rather than answers. “What was hard about purchasing the...

Anonymous

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