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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 moreA writer and poet honors the memory of her mother by finding the parallels between her own work and the story of another mother and daughter.
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 nurse ponders the role of hope in the clinical encounter and whether the holy can be found within the realm of medicine.
Read moreA retired hematologist explores the importance of clinical communication and health literacy by close reading two pieces published in this journal.
Read moreA medical student reflects on the loss of their father to a devastating neurodegenerative disease as well as the power that music can hold during the illness experience.
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 more“Ms. Paul, I can’t give you any more pain medication, it isn’t time.”
Edith’s eyes were closed. She was in the single patient room again, the one that had an anteroom with an extra sink that connected to her room by a sliding glass door. The residents always made sure both sets of sliding doors were closed before talking about her.
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 moreA testimony and tribute to one writer’s mother who passed away from COVID-19.
Read moreA nurse ponders the role of food in the ICU setting—as well as the hunger that it can stir and the memories that it can evoke.
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