Poetry Collections

Start from a clinical or ethical situation.

1. 01Loss of a patientElegies, consolations, and night-watch poems written around deaths the art could not prevent.Open →
2. 02Responsibility of medicinePoems on duty, oath, decision, and the hours when care cannot be delegated.Open →
3. 03Diagnostic uncertaintyPulse, urine, fever, face, and the honest difficulty of not yet knowing.Open →
4. 04Witnessing sufferingWhat physicians wrote after staying in the room: pain observed, attended, and carried home.Open →
5. 05Burnout and moral injuryWeariness, doubt, lost faith in the art, and the slow return to responsibility.Open →
6. 06Humility before the bodyVerse anatomies, herbals, and the wonder of bodies that outlast theories about them.Open →
7. 07Public health and contagionPlague regimens, airs and waters, and the duty owed to a whole city at once.Open →
8. 08Teaching and apprenticeshipAphorisms set to meter, advice to students, and gratitude to the dead who taught the art.Open →