My pounding heart.
Walking slowly on a path,
With wind gently brushing on our faces,
My heart beat against chest wall out of tempo.
Podcast: On becoming a healer
In this podcast, which builds on Dr. Weiner’s book, On Becoming a Healer: The Journey from Patient Care to Caring about Your Patients (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), two physicians, take a thoughtful, critical look at medical training and the culture of medicine.
Concert of Dreams
On stage, my sweaty palms encased the bow,
legs swaddled around the cello,
sat across an audience of thousands,
only one mattered: Yo-Yo Ma
His stern gaze petrifying.
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To my long-lost friend
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The unknown (what it feels like to enter medical school)
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