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"In the Trenches"

Feel for the teenaged girl who cuts

herself so she can control some-

thing in a divided household

but cannot bear the dozen pricks

of the thin lidocaine needle

so she will not feel any of

the one hundred twenty stitches

needed to lace her wrists back up.

Sutures march like rows of barbed wire

across this no-man's land of skin.

Her mother whispers in her hair,

while her father stands guard, arms crossed,

watching from the foot of the bed.

My hand cramps around the forceps

as I bend down to sew again.

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Nikki Moustaki, "Writing Poems on Antidepressants"

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When I make rounds with medical students and interns, I’ve often tried to sneak in a poem at the end. It’s not always the most well-received bit of medical teaching,

"Take two sonnets, and call me in the morning."

"I'm going to slap those doctors," Jack Coulehan

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Danielle Ofri: Why Medicine Needs Poetry

Danielle Ofri MD – physician, writer, and editor of the Bellevue Literary Review – discusses why poetry and literature are important to medicine. Danielle kindly filmed this video messa…

In this video clip, physician-writer Danielle Ofri MD explains why medicine needs poetry. She is a co-founder and still an editor of the Bellevue Literary Review.

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Excited to see you at my first 100% in-person Grand Rounds tomorrow, screening the documentary, “Why Doctors Write,” with my “Poetry Godfather” Dr Jack Coulehan. Q&A and much discussion to follow…brainstorming ideas from story slams to a #MedicalHumanities club! Hope to see you there! https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca59NWEuX7D/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Devastatingly Beautiful Memoir about Love, Intellect, and Disability

On the left, the cover of the book, A Life Beyond Reason: A Father's Memoir , by Chris Gabbard. On the right, August smiles at the camera wh...

Check out this book review of A Life Beyond Reason: A Father's Memoir, by literary scholar Chris Gabbard, about his son August, who had cerebral palsy and who radically changed the way Gabbard thought about the meaning of life.