Medicine
This post links to a selection of moving poetry and short fiction pieces previously featured on Common Sense Family Doctor, mostly republished with permission from the Bellevue Literary Review and Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine. Many thanks to the respective physician-editors of these stellar publications, Danielle Ofri and Paul Gross, for allowing me to share my favorites.
October 2009:
Medicine in Translation by Danielle Ofri
November 2009:
Anatomy Lesson by Nellie Hill
Thanksgiving: Visiting My Brother on the Ward by Peter Schmitt
December 2009:
The Rudeness by Rick Kempa
Cleft by Jon Neher
January 2010:
Having an MRI/Waiting for Laundry by Jan Bottiglieri
Cure by Veneta Masson
February 2010:
Johnny Doe by Yvonne Estrada
Reflections from a Senior Citizen by Dorothy Kligerman
If you enjoy what you read here, please consider subscribing to these literary magazines and/or purchasing their "best of" collections, The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review and Pulse: The First Year.
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- Guest Blog: Thanksgiving: Visiting My Brother On The Ward
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- Guest Blog: Anatomy Lesson
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Medicine
Favorite Guest Blogs
This post links to a selection of moving poetry and short fiction pieces previously featured on Common Sense Family Doctor, mostly republished with permission from the Bellevue Literary Review and Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine. Many thanks to the respective physician-editors of these stellar publications, Danielle Ofri and Paul Gross, for allowing me to share my favorites.
October 2009:
Medicine in Translation by Danielle Ofri
November 2009:
Anatomy Lesson by Nellie Hill
Thanksgiving: Visiting My Brother on the Ward by Peter Schmitt
December 2009:
The Rudeness by Rick Kempa
Cleft by Jon Neher
January 2010:
Having an MRI/Waiting for Laundry by Jan Bottiglieri
Cure by Veneta Masson
February 2010:
Johnny Doe by Yvonne Estrada
Reflections from a Senior Citizen by Dorothy Kligerman
If you enjoy what you read here, please consider subscribing to these literary magazines and/or purchasing their "best of" collections, The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review and Pulse: The First Year.
- Common Sense Family Doctor Celebrates Its First Birthday
Exactly one year ago, on July 24, 2009, I posted the first entry in this blog. I'd like to thank instructor David A. Taylor and my science writing classmates at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland, for encouraging me to channel my creative...
- Guest Blog: Reflections From A Senior Citizen
Dorothy Kligerman is ninety-five years old, widowed, with three married children, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Her first published work appeared in February, 1931, in The Record Book of her graduating class at Simon Gratz High School...
- Guest Blog: Having An Mri/waiting For Laundry
Jan Bottiglieri is a writer and editor, and a poetry student in the MFA program at Pacific University. She lives in Schaumberg, Illinois. The following piece was first published in the Bellevue Literary Review. ** HAVING AN MRI / WAITING FOR LAUNDRY I...
- Guest Blog: Thanksgiving: Visiting My Brother On The Ward
Peter Schmitt is the author of five collections of poems, including Renewing the Vows, in which the following poem (first published in the Bellevue Literary Review) appears. You can find more information at his website, http://www.schmittpoetry.com/....
- Guest Blog: Anatomy Lesson
Nellie Hill's poems have appeared widely in literary journals in print and online. "Anatomy Lesson," first published in the Bellevue Literary Review, also appears in My Daily Walk (Pudding House, 2008). Nellie has an acupressure practice in Berkeley,...