RUBOR VOL.11 IS LIVE!

08/01/23

View the print publication here and pieces from the web edition here

Hard copies are available at the following locations: Health Sciences Library, Health Sciences Education Building, U of U Hospital lobby, clinics, and dialysis center, College of Pharmacy, School of Medicine Admissions Office, Office of Health Equity and Inclusion, Student Affairs Office, Office of Medical Humanities

From the Editorial Team:


Dear Friends, Colleagues, and Readers,

Thank you for joining us for Issue 11 of Rubor. Whether you are skimming the pages for a specific piece or you are cozying up for a deep dive, we are grateful that you are here. Our team worked diligently to ensure there is something for everyone in this volume. Perhaps you would like to reflect along with Annie Kendell while reading “A Place for Grief,” as you balance loss and hope in your own journey through medicine and take inspiration from her insight. Maybe your inspiration will come from Sri Radhakrishnan’s“The Navy Seal of Surgeons,”which whimsically conveys his intended career of pediatric surgery. It is possible you will find yourself charmed, as we did, by the abstraction of “the plastibell,” as Ben Drum captures how our honed sense of pattern recognition can run rampant. Every work in this issue is an essential part of the tapestry we’ve woven together as an editorial team. We hope you will be as moved as we were by the highs, laughs, and lows through the art, poetry, and prose of our contributors.

I will speak for a moment as the Editor-in-Chief, a mantle generally unnecessary given the team-based structure of Rubor. I want to express how lucky I am to have worked with the amazing people who were necessary to bring you this issue. My Associate Editors are the most incredible individuals, and any of us would be fortunate to have them as either physicians or friends (maybe both!). Our Peer Reviewers were essential in selecting the pieces we present here, and of course none of this would be possible, feasible, or quite so enjoyable without the guidance and leadership of Dr. Susan Sample. My gratitude is endless. Thank you again for being part of my journey and for letting us be a part of yours.


Laurel 

Volume 11 Editor-in-Chief

About

Welcome to Rubor, a medical humanities journal at the University of Utah School of Medicine. This literary and arts publication is run by medical students, and submission is open to all. We are grateful to the University of Utah School of Medicine Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities, the School of Medicine Office of Admissions, and the Associated Students of the University of Utah for providing financial support for this publication, as well as the University of Utah  Eccles Health Sciences Library for their digital and technological assistance.

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Rubor is an instrument of humanism and a creative forum for the humanities at the University of Utah School of Medicine. On behalf of readers and contributors in Salt Lake City, the greater Utah community, and beyond, Rubor seeks to provide a sense of community, belongingness, and expression of humanity, in the context of health and medicine, through its print journal and digital site.


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