Research
Essays & Findings
Public writing, working arguments, and research notes on the craft of doctoring.
Essays & Findings is where The Poet Doctor shares ideas in forms meant to travel. Some pieces are interpretive essays. Some are research summaries. Some are reflections that connect the Library, the historical record, and questions emerging in medicine now. Together, they make the work more public without making it less serious.
Several kinds of writing, one continuing inquiry
Essays
Longer arguments about doctoring, poetry, physician writing, and the future physician role.
Findings
Clear, public-facing summaries of patterns emerging through research and archival work.
Notes
Shorter pieces that surface a question, a source, a method, or a line of inquiry worth following.
Featured writing
Featured pieces may connect historical and contemporary physician writing, explain a research method in accessible language, or explore how attention, judgment, and responsibility are being reshaped in the age of AI.
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