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.
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.
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.
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.