Nicholas Gallo, MD UW Hospital, Internal Medicine 2024 Short story “Nick, get out of the car.” “No!” “Nick, you have to get out of the car.” “No. No. No. You can’t make me. I don’t want to go!” My dad crossed his arms, stepped back, and watched as I entangled my body within the…
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Length of Stay
Stephannie Acha-Morfaw School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Emergency Medicine 2023 Prose The third column glared an angry red. LOS-8:00 She’d already been waiting in the emergency department for 8 hours. The phone rings. “I’m happy to come see him…” I cut him off and say, “see ‘her’?” “Sure, see ‘her’ he…
hallway rendezvous
Andrea Gilmore Bykovskyi School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Emergency Medicine 2023 Poem beneath your despair and my anticipation we are both watching the same silent film: the end of an era. every death is new but the dance familiar you question, I gesture. I have a lot of important words for…
what if we got rained on in someone’s yard (and we were all cicadas)
Undying Love
Traumatic Subconjunctival Hemorrhage as a Result of Asphyxiation II
Artist statement: Subconjunctival hemorrhages can result from increased intrathoracic pressure -ex. traumatic asphyxia.
Tallgrass Tapestry
Artist statement: This work was inspired by an August walk in a colleague’s prairie in Wisconsin.
Street lights are angels of sodium vapor
A Serendipitous Encounter
Artist statement: A symbol of my deceased Dad, this butterfly appeared in my path shortly after moving to Wisconsin.