Volume 5 | 2023 Voices from the Wards
Table of contents
2023 | Voices from the Wards, Front Cover
Front cover art
2023 | Voices from the Wards, Front Inside
Front inside art
2023 | Voices from the Wards, Introduction
These upcoming pages reflect a medley of narratives
First Doubt
Radiation oncology, first clinical rotation
Grandma
Rain scarred sand wash, wise-textured face.
Disposition: Home
You presented with subclavian steal, and its rarity
Previa Choice
A whirl in my belly,
Swatches
There’s a color scheme to maintain
More than a textbook case
50 year old male, camping, canned soup
HFNC
You grew up when the valley was farmland
Speechless
Two years my junior
Take Your Medicine
She’s sweet, talkative, a great med student patient.
Within a Day
She’s sweet, talkative, a great med student patient.
Perspective
them:
Aspirations
Guess I’m on the precipice of “success,”
Clinic Day
In lab, I am known as “the guy who knows medicine.”
Untitled
Transitioning from nights to days
Can’t Touch My Face
“Hold the retractor and don’t move!”
4th Year Dissonance
Starting a new rotation during 4th year. I have 3
L/D
Our attending steps out to shrill alarms and shouting
Sig-e-caps
The morning I found out
Critical Access, A Critical Role
Welcome to rural Utah; we’re a critical access hospital,
Painting Catatonia Pink
We wait silently
A Comedy of Clumsy
Residents at the podium, presenting patients, even