Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine

REVIEWS!
Thanks @ala-booklist.bsky.social for the review!

Thrilled @publisherswkly.bsky.social: “Collects writings by health care workers reflecting on their struggles with burnout, frustration, fear, and self-doubt, as well as the joys and successes that make their vocation worth it.”

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.

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....

Real Doctors of New York Spill Their Guts

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.”

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Snowboarding Through Arthritis - Where Arthritis Meets Adrenaline YouTube video by Adam Newton

35 mins long but there’s so much in here for anyone contending with a life-changing disease youtu.be/FzTiRpI57-4

Poetry’s Use of Metaphor for What Happens Inside and Outside the Body A reflection by writer R. A. Pavoldi

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"

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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