Contents

55-word stories are just that—stories told in 55 words. The genre was
coined by Steven Moss, founder of the New Times weekly in San
Luis Obispo County, CA, which sponsored the first 55-word story
contest in 1987. Since then, many communities, including medicine,
have found the form useful in telling their unique experiences.

Voices from the Faculty

Editorial board

Gretchen Case, PhD, MA
Candace Chow, PhD, MA
Katarina Friberg Felsted, PhD
Tiffany Glasgow, MD
Karen Gunning, PharmD
Sara E. Hart, PhD, RN
Joni Hemond, MD
Sara Lamb, MD
Laura Lambert, MD
Kerry Magiske, DNP, MS
Karly Pippitt, MD
Shawna Sisler, PhD, MS, MA, RN


Layout & Copyediting:
Camila Castaneda, MA
Program Coordinator
Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities

Funding provided by:
The Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine Dean’s Office

2025 | Voices from the Faculty, Front Cover | Front-cover
by Bryan Welm, PhD

2025 | Voices from the Faculty, Introduction | Introduction
by Rubor

To a startled resident | Literature
by Gretchen A. Case, PhD, MA

Student/Teacher | Literature
by Joni Hemond, MD

AI | Literature
by Jeff Druck, MD

Tabula Rasa | Literature
by Benjamin Drum, MD, PhD

Ebbs and flows | Literature
by Sarah Drejet, MD

total parenteral nutrition | Literature
by James Huntley, MA, MCh, DPhil

Four Years | Literature
by Michelle Hofmann, MD, MPH, MHCDS

Permission to Be Human | Literature
by Heloisa Soares, MD, PhD

Delayed Diagnosis | Literature
by Sonja Van Hala, MD, MPH, FAAFP

Mothers | Literature
by Thomas Higgins, MD

She loved her children most. | Literature
by Ryann Bierer, MD

A Magic Spell | Literature
by Natasha Pavlova, PhD

Twenty-Four | Literature
by Katherine A. Franklin, PT, DPT, PhD(c)

Just because I cannot speak doesn’t mean I don’t have anything to say | Literature
by Barry Markovitz, MD, MPH

Raiding the Fridge | Literature
by Johanna Greenberg, PA-C

Tonal Existence | Literature
by Stephen Hall Sams, MD

Beyond Our Time Together | Literature
by Kirk Nichols, PhM, MS

The Weight | Literature
by Rachel Gartell Simpson, MD

Feedback | Literature
by Scott Hall, MD

Legacy | Literature
by Joanne Rolls, MEHP, MPAS, PA-C

A Physician’s Truth | Literature
by Dulce Boucher, MD