Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine
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Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine
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Intima is a literary journal dedicated to the theory and practice of narrative medicine, a healthcare discipline focused on empathy in the clinical encounter
A wonderful essay about acceptance, silent meditation and medical training by one of Intima's Non-Fiction editors, Grace Yi.

Avocado and Salt | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Avocado and Salt | NEJM
After a year of clinical rotations in which a medical student learns to face death up close, her experience on a silent meditation retreat provides her with new perspective on death and life.
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August 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Amazing article by Lisa Miller

Nine doctors gathered at a Brooklyn Public Library branch in Fort Greene to tell true stories at an event called Airway... which is like the Moth— ordinary people telling everyday stories—but w/ all the vérité drama of “The Pitt.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/w...
Real Doctors of New York Spill Their Guts
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June 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Reposted by Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine
35 mins long but there’s so much in here for anyone contending with a life-changing disease youtu.be/FzTiRpI57-4
Snowboarding Through Arthritis - Where Arthritis Meets Adrenaline
YouTube video by Adam Newton
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May 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read this provocative short essay that explores heart disease, loss & the power of a poem by one of our Spring/Summer 2025 contributors. "Poetry’s Use of Metaphor for What Happens Inside and Outside the Body"

#narrativemedicine
#poetry
#poems

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Poetry’s Use of Metaphor for What Happens Inside and Outside the Body
A reflection by writer R. A. Pavoldi
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June 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Engage with the work in our issue.

© ECMO: The Burden of Choice by Emily Xiao.

“ECMO is an artificial life support used while patients await recovery or organ transplant. This gouache explores the pain of weighing when to withdraw it.” Xiao is an internal medicine resident @bcmhouston.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM