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Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · 1d

'late autumn' by Barbara Kauffmann
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#haiku #fall #medsky #medicalhumanities #pulsevoices #narrativemedicine #health #poem #writing #art #bluesky

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Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · 2d

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#microscopy #tumor #medicalhumanities #BlueSky #MedSky #healthcare #medicine #diagnosis #health #narrativemedicine #cancer #medicalstudent #stories #art #STEM #illness #patient #Patientcare #microscope

Psammoma Bodies with Whorls - Pulse

Eva Catenaccio About the artist: Eva Catenaccio is a medical student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY. “I spent my summer rotating with the neurology service. I have always bee...

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Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · 2d

"Psammoma Bodies with Whorls" by Eva Catenaccio

"What is ‘interesting’ academically can cause us to overlook the patient’s experience of illness. While I can see a certain beauty in the tumor cells swirling on the slide, the patient may view the same slide very differently."

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Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · 3d

#writing #submissions #disability #medicine #writers #MedSky #medicalhumanities #healthcare #patient #storytelling #empathy #BlueSky

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Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · 3d

This month’s More Voices theme is Disability. What’s your experience of having a disability, of providing care for someone with a disability, or of having a family member with a disability?

Share your story here: pulsevoices.org/more-voices-...

Stories should be 40-400 words.

#writingprompt

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Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · 9d

LAST CALL FOR POETRY SUBMISSIONS!!!

#poetry #writers #writing #poem #medicalhumanities #narrativemedicine

Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · 29d

Pulse will be accepting poetry submissions this month from September 1st to September 30th!

Use the submission form to submit your poetry: pulsevoices.org/poem-submiss...

Additionally, please visit our website for submission guidelines: pulsevoices.org/submit/

#poem #poetry #writing #pulsevoices

Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · 9d

#medicalhumanities #MedSky #healthcare #actors #medschool #medstudents #pulsevoices #medicine #health #patient #patientcare #humor #bluesky #stories #perspective #writing

Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · 9d

With September concluding, we are sharing one of this month's More Voices stories on the #examroom. "Humor 101" by Patti Cassidy brings in the perspective of standardized patients and insight into the importance of humor in the patient-provider bond.
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Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · 10d

#medicalhumanities #medsky #medicalstudents #war #pulsevoices #writers #writing #healthcare #narrativemedicine

Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · 10d

Saleh Jad shares his story, “Dialyzing in a War Zone,” in the most recent issue of Pulse. His piece touches on work in healthcare in Palestine and the struggle to communicate with patients about their experiences effectively…
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Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · 15d

"Three Needles" by Jane Desmond.

"This poem details the procedure of providing a ‘good death’ from the perspective of the human caring for her non-human companion."
Read the full poem: pulsevoices.org/poems/three-...

#pet #vet #animal #rabbit #PulseVoices #medicalhumanities #death #dying #poem

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Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · 16d

'Children's Memorial' by Susan Cunningham

“This is a watercolor painting of the Edgartown Lighthouse on Martha’s Vineyard. Every September there is a memorial service for lost children, and our son has a memorial stone at the base of the lighthouse."

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#art #healing

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Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · 23d

In "Thank You, Betty", Patty I. Sánchez Montejo must deliver the dreaded news of recurrence. Read here: pulsevoices.org/stories/than...

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Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · 25d

"hospice window" by Kala Ramesh.
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To read more of our published haiku, visit our website at: pulsevoices.org/haiku/

#haiku #poem #Medsky #medicine #medicalhumanities #healthcare #hospice #patient

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Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · 29d

Pulse will be accepting poetry submissions this month from September 1st to September 30th!

Use the submission form to submit your poetry: pulsevoices.org/poem-submiss...

Additionally, please visit our website for submission guidelines: pulsevoices.org/submit/

#poem #poetry #writing #pulsevoices

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Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · Sep 7

Through caring for one patient, Dua Hassan’s "Choosing to Believe" is a story of reexamining faith as a choice in adulthood when faced with the unexplainable.
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#medicalhumanities #narrativemedicine #medicine #hope #healthcare #care #religion #faith #Pulsevoices

Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · Sep 2

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#art #visual #drawing #medicine #healthcare #narrativemedicine #medicalhumanities #MedSky #patient #patientexperience #OR #Pulsevoices

Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · Sep 2

"The Lingering Gaze" by Simran Anand

About the Art: "This piece captures what stays with you long after the operating room—the stares, the silence, the shame imposed by others...This piece is about visibility, vulnerability, and finding strength not in spite of being different but because of it."

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Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · Aug 31

“What Remains” by Grace Lin and Amanda Tam reflects on the endurance of friendship in the face of time and a terminal illness diagnosis.

Read here: pulsevoices.org/stories/what...

#ALS #friendship #narrativemedicine #medicalhumanities #medicine #diagnosis #terminalillness #sisterhood #writing

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Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · Aug 27

#poetry #motherhood #poem #medicine #MedSky #medicalhumanities #narrativemedicine #writing

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Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · Aug 27

"The Healer" by Lori-Anne Noyahr
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About the Poem: "This is a poem about motherhood in medicine, the balance between caring for others and one's personal relationships, and the tension between the sterile setting of the hospital and the natural world."

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Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · Aug 21

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Growing a Spine - Pulse

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Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · Aug 21

“Growing a Spine” by Sabina Mehdi

About the artwork: “Where would the soft curve of the spine be without the protruding spinous and transverse processes of its vertebrae?”

#photography #anatomy #MedSky #medicalhumanities #pulsevoices #medicine #art #health #visual #photo #nature #plants

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Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · Aug 20

"too much sun" by LeRoy Gorman
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#haiku #poetry #medicalhumanities #MedSky #Pulsevoices #narrativemedicine #cancer #oncology #healthcare #medicine #patient #writing #writers #poet #health #diagnosis

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Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine @pulsevoices.org · Aug 13

A firsthand account of delivering medical care while bombs fall on Gaza, as told by Sami Mahmoud Margharie, a young physician now seeing patients in a Gaza refugee camp.
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#Gaza #MedSky #narrativemedicine #medicalhumanities #emergencymedicine #war #healthcare

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