Intima Archives | FICTION M-Z by title
Machine Learning | Sylvia Sensiper | SPRING 2023
What can old photographs, put together in new ways, tell us about our own past? A new hobby helps a dialysis patient cope with loss.
Mangoes | Rachel Prince | SPRING 2024
Contentious, yet caring: Mother-daughter relationships are forever lovingly complex, but especially so in times of illness.
Maps to Nowhere | Ligia Batista | FALL 2014
Class dismissed: A lecture on PTSD becomes a lesson in recovery for the professor.
Maybe That's Why I Became a Psychiatrist | Jacob Freedman | SPRING 2015
What exists beyond the limits of a social history and diagnostic algorithms?
Nay Nay’s Rebirth | Sara Lynne Wright | SPRING 2022
Hello again: A 94-year-old narrator finds the middle ground between her caring children and her mother’s memory.
The Next Best Day | Paul Perilli | FALL 2016
A memory from the past resurfaces when the future seems uncertain.
Night Watch | Dana Gage | FALL 2011
A young doctor learns a touching lesson from a child's parent.
No Human Bias Involved | Jennifer Lycette | FALL 2022
What will healthcare look like when treatment decisions are made by AI? A nurse learns the painful truth in this timely futuristic tale.
Not Today, Not Tonight | Donald Kollisch | SPRING 2024
Routine appointments sometimes play out in undesirable ways, disrupting the normal course of events during an exam and after-hours.
No Word | E.E. Toksu | FALL 2021
Dictionaries show us the way: A woman faces a life event for which Noah Webster has no word.
Numb | Julie Rea | FALL 2014
Sometimes the unlikeliest person from long ago becomes an agent of change, a muse to a memory.
Old Scrubs | Bruce Campbell | SPRING 2024
After a procedure, a longtime surgeon exits the hospital with a different kind of insight.
The Oral | Ron Ruskin | FALL 2022
The story of a medical student and poetry lover who wrestles with oral exams but finds solace in the words of Neruda.
Panic Value | Kate Otto Chebly | SPRING 2022
How do you continue to care for others, when you have lost so deeply?
People Are Dumb | Cheryl Bailey | SPRING 2024
Mistaken identity leads to rage, reflection and reconciliation in a hospital corridor.
The Piercer | M. Krockmalnik Grabois | FALL 2014
In a state hospital in the Florida Panhandle, we meet the Treatment Team and a group of patients who defy treatment.
Pretending Not To Know | Priscilla Mainardi | SPRING 2014
If a patient is an accused killer, how should a clinician react? Is it a case where knowledge is power—or not?
The PRN Wife | Cynthia Stock | FALL 2022
The ICU serves as the backdrop for this story of true love in unexpected places.
Queen of Swords | Jafar Al-Mondhiry | SPRING 2024
A tarot card reading prompts a young clinician’s uneasy reflection on fate—and the difficulty of predicting an outcome.
Quiet, Quiet Room | Andrew Boden | SPRING 2016
A father devotes his life to caring for his mentally ill daughter. Now can she save him?
The Resident | Humaira Khan | SPRING 2023
Follow Myra on the fast-paced stroke unit, as she tries to balance her devotion to her patients and fellow residents with her devotion to home and family.
Respite | Dwayne Brenna | FALL 2019
Changes in a patient’s health intertwine with changes in his respite nurse’s life.
Resuscitation | Daly Walker | FALL 2020
A seasoned doctor confronts dual challenges in COVID-19 and a resident who has some different ideas about how to care for patients.
Rocks and River | Marleen Pasch | FALL 2021
How does a young woman bring back the “river voice,” in this compelling tale of striving and escape?
The Room | Jodi Paik | FALL 2016
A young patient's perspective on his hospital room and the life he lives in it.
Room 21 | Rowan Jeffrey | FALL 2024
Health issues bring not only limitations but new ways of coping in this poignant story of one man’s attempt to reconcile his past self with his present life.
Saturday Morning | Patrick Connolly | FALL 2021
The circle of life continues in the face of a pandemic.
Scent | K.W. Oxnard | SPRING 2022
POV: You get sick and your dog has learned to write. Here’s the story.
Scorpions | Jingyi Zhang | FALL 2021
A husband and wife are caught in the tension between Eastern and Western medicine.
Shelter | Jane Ratcliffe | SPRING 2013
How does illness shape a relationship? How can disaster breed love?
Sisters of Mercy | Eileen Valinoti | SPRING 2018
The coming of age of a young nurse is aided by humor, compassion and a strict instructor.
Sky | Denise Napoli Long | FALL 2023
A nurse discovers she too is unforgettable in a surprisingly sad way.
Slipping Away | Lisa Napolitan | FALL 2023
Recurrent paranoia splinters a mother’s family and she faces her greatest fear - getting help.
Solving for Unknowns | Parisa Thepmankorn | SPRING 2024
‘Give-up-itis’ presents its own mathematical uncertainties as a granddaughter grapples with her grandfather’s reaction to a cancer diagnosis.
Something True | Sonny Fillmore | SPRING 2024
Medical mysteries aren’t always solved, even though we’d like them to be. An account from a particularly astute insider.
Sometimes I Pretend | Kany Aziz | SPRING 2018
For many, coping takes creativity to be effective: A vivid imagination helps a cancer patient escape her reality.
South Eight | Larry Atlas | SPRING 2021
Doctor, nurse and patient intersect in this itimate portrayal of a day on a hospital floor.
Splitting Wood | Emily Groot | FALL 2024
Physical activity and supportive parents help a schizophrenic man cope with the voices in his head, as he combats threats from both within and without.
Steps to Footcare | Josephine Ensign | SPRING 2014
An instruction manual, of sorts—for doctors open to what's really being taught.
Stone Free | Tim Muldoon | FALL 2015
Can a sick young woman's doctors help her realize her big dreams?
The Sun in Cannes | Sara Baker | SPRING 2015
We can only hope for clarity in the chaos of a medical emergency
Symptoms (Multiple Schlerosis) | Andrew Hincapie | FALL 2017
Glimpse a patient experience through a "how to" motif.
There's a Special on Car Washes | Rory O'Sullivan | FALL 2024
Two contrasting views — a man travelling down a dark highway to visit his mother in the hospital, and the doctor taking care of her — have more in common than you might expect, and show us our shared humanity.
This Other Person | Krista Puttler | SPRING 2023
Multiple hospital visits reveal multiple angles on the reality of medical care today, in this taut moving dialogue-filled story.
Tick-Tock | Sophia Wilson | FALL 2021
Time is a character in this evocative flash fiction, where a woman surrounded by clocks ponders how quickly it passes.
Time Machine | Sarajane Rodgers | SPRING 2023
An everyday item brings new understanding to this caregiver.
Trigger Points | Eli Cahan | FALL 2018
A tale of fibroymyalgia: “Whether the burden brought the pain, or whether the pain brought the burden, she does not know.”
Triumphant | Joy Liu | SPRING 2017
A doctor's reflection on navigating cancer with a patient.
Untidy Lipstick | Irena Tan | FALL 2018
Sisterhood shines bright, even in the face of cancer.
Waiting | Sean Murphy | SPRING 2017
What flickers through the mind in the waiting room?
Waiting | William French | SPRING 2019
Thoughts and sensations flourish in a mother’s mind, trapped in a dying body.
The Waiting Room | Shruti Koti | SPRING 2024
When a life-changing decision has been made, a couple sees the inevitable choice they made differently.
We’re All Sick Here | Andrew Kingston | SPRING 2023
A day in the life: one nurse’s inside look at the reality of patient care during the pandemic.
What We Learned | Aimee LaBrie | SPRING 2022
Medical school textbooks are instructive, but not exhaustive, repositories of human suffering and success.
When the Cow Jumps Over the Moon | Frederick Nenner | SPRING 2015
Not your average nursery rhyme: prognosis and prediction on the oncology ward.
Who I Am | Kimberly Mitchell | FALL 2023
Glimpses into the thoughts of a woman with progressive dementia—and those around her—show that when all is lost, love remains.
Why Don't You Please Get Out and Leave Me Alone? | Ronald Ruskin | SPRING 2021
What a psychiatrist learns from a patient who is reluctant to talk.
Your Father's Heart | Malgorzata Nowaczyk | SPRING 2016
A medical student reconciles her drive for high marks with the realities of hospital rotations and the challenges of her own family.
Your First Pediatric Intubation | Rachel Kowalsky | SPRING 2022
“First, eat a meal. Then kick your dragons to the curb.” A physician’s wry, honest thought process on a difficult procedure.