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© Feeling Blue Amanda Hage Spring 2022 Intima
It is a challenging time to practice medicine. We are emerging from a global pandemic that is casting a long shadow. This has mingled with austerity for public service funding and a cost-of-living crisis. Members of many healthcare professions have been on strike.
Read moreA pediatric intensive care physician advocates for crossing the imaginary line and using the power of touch to comfort those in need.
Read moreA nurse examines a clinical encounter through her poetry and appreciates the individual nature of care.
Read more“A medically assisted death, such as I recount in my essay “Mercies, Or, the Mostly True Tale of a Narratively Assisted Death” (Intima Spring 2023), is the antithesis of a traumatic ending in an ER. It is highly anticipated, fully orchestrated and well rehearsed – on everyone’s part but my own.”
Read moreA psychiatrist uses her skills of close listening within the clinical encounter to uncover the enduring effects of intergenerational trauma.
Read moreA retired hematologist explores the importance of clinical communication and health literacy by close reading two pieces published in this journal.
Read moreA writer reflects on her own mother’s experience with death and dying and argues for the greater recognition of palliative care in the clinical encounter.
Read moreWhich story is heard, and by whom? Which story do people want to hear, and why? A COVID nurse provides explanations as well as recommendations about storytelling.
Read moreA former PICU nurse examines the power of both embodiment and gaze in the clinical encounter.
Read moreIn reading Liana Meffert’s “Death is Usually an Easy Diagnosis,” I was intrigued by her reflections on the learning and limitation of choreographed roles and scripted dialogue in pronouncing death and informing bereaved families.
Read moreA retired physician reflects on his glimpses into religion and spirituality while confronting his patients’ illness and suffering—as well as his own.
Read moreA physician-novelist ponders the troubling implications of the increasing technologization of health care and its encroachment on the art of medicine.
Read moreA writer and father ponders the power of absence in the clinical encounter, as well as the power of presence.
Read moreA medical student examines two poems published in this journal in order to advocate for genuine connection in medical practice between patients and physicians.
Read moreWhat is the beautiful surprise that can be found in the clinical encounter between patient and physician? A writer and nurse explains.
Read moreA neurologist meditates on his “medical metamorphosis” into a physician—and how poetry served as a lifeline for inspiration and growth throughout it all.
Read moreIn writing about psychosis, a psychiatrist contemplates whether a physician can ever truly understand a patient’s lived experience.
Read moreA visual artist explores the trusting relationship she shares with her psychiatrist—and how that fiduciary manifests itself through her photodrawings and studio art.
Read moreWhat makes writing different from medicine and vice-versa? A contributor to this journal pinpoints their shared ability to instruct via narrative.
Read moreA psychiatrist contemplates what can be learned from success and failure—and how laughter sometimes is the best medicine.
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