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...
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Sara Wang
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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...
Anonymous
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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...
Marya Pulaski
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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...
Anonymous
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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...
Anika Maya Obasiolu
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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...
Anonymous
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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...
Paige Comerford
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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...
Sheikh Moinul
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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...
Dr. Dave Hatem
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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...
Megan Hansen
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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...
Anonymous
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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...
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