Mom, Doc, Patient, Home: Poetry and the Merging of Identities

Deliberate and measured, poetry can be a valuable foil to an ever-changing, fast-paced world. A literary medium that has survived millennia of artistic innovation and technological advancement, poetry at its roots has steadfastly retained its ability to encourage emotional seeking and contemplative depth. For clinicians, such occasions for steadiness and peace are scarce. The poem “Pager” uses poetry’s intentionality to facilitate reflection on the unrelenting busyness of a physician’s life. Jug...