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When Cure and Language are Inadequate, What Remains?

Recalling the loss of her husband, Mike, Dianne Avey’s essay“Morning Light” (Spring 2023 Intima) reaches back a decade to a quiet September…

3 min readNov 28, 2023

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When Cure and Language are Inadequate, What Remains?

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What is ‘informed consent?’

What are your rights when you participate in a medical research study?

11 min readFeb 25, 2021

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What is ‘informed consent?’

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Finding What’s Essential in Just Laundry: Painting and Poetry in Dialogue by Alexis Rehrmann —…

I hate looking at paintings through a screen, jammed into one small window, behind a second one in which I am typing. The imperfect…

2 min readFeb 5, 2021

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Finding What’s Essential in Just Laundry: Painting and Poetry in Dialogue by Alexis Rehrmann —…

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On (Un)Knowing: A Reflection on the Imagination and the Body by poet Michelle Dyer — Intima

If I were to show Sapana Adhikari’s painting “What Lies Beneath” to my four-year old niece, she might point at the women’s bulging blue…

2 min readFeb 2, 2021

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On (Un)Knowing: A Reflection on the Imagination and the Body by poet Michelle Dyer — Intima

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My COVID Hero: How Art Helped Me Reflect on a Global Pandemic by Dr. Brandon Mogrovejo — Intima

Lately, I’ve drawn as a way to reflect on myself and other healthcare providers.

3 min readJan 29, 2021

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My COVID Hero: How Art Helped Me Reflect on a Global Pandemic by Dr. Brandon Mogrovejo — Intima

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Global Citizenship: The Complex Emotions of ‘Going Home’ to a Place You’ve Never Been by Violet…

Global citizenship is humanity that transcends borders.

3 min readJan 26, 2021

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Violet Kieu is a fertility doctor and writer from Melbourne, Australia, who writes memoir about medicine and motherhood.

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For Martin Luther King: A poem about a statue and a new form of social justice.

Monument

1 min readJan 18, 2021

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For Martin Luther King: A poem about a statue and a new form of social justice.

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“A Line Blurring Joy and Grief”: Empathizing from a Distance, by Daniel Ginsburg — Intima

In emergency settings, how do clinicians show empathy for patients and their families, yet maintain a healthy emotional distance? In Yara…

2 min readJan 18, 2021

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“A Line Blurring Joy and Grief”: Empathizing from a Distance, by Daniel Ginsburg — Intima

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Opening to the Moment: A Response to the drawing “Healing” by writer Brenna Fitzgerald

Wesley Usher’s drawing “Healing” (Spring 2020 Intima) is a meditation on the power of pain and suffering to transform if we open to the…

3 min readJan 15, 2021

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Opening to the Moment: A Response to the drawing “Healing” by writer Brenna Fitzgerald

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Caught between Floating and Drowning, a reflection about poetry, memory and adapting to chaos by…

A state of flux. The COVID-19 pandemic has induced a state of “How will I react to _____?” Listlessness and emotional exhaustion bring…

2 min readJan 10, 2021

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Caught between Floating and Drowning, a reflection about poetry, memory and adapting to chaos by…

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Intima Journal

Intima is a literary journal dedicated to the practice of narrative medicine, an inter-disciplinary field forging bonds with caregivers and patients.

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