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Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of One Lousy Night by Marianne Gambaro with reflection on caregivers, fever dreams, delirium and critical illness.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: Poem: https://pulsevoices.org/poems/one-lousy-night/ References: Gambaro, Marianne. “One Lousy Night.” Pulse Voices, https://pulsevoices.org/poems/one-lousy-night/. Accessed 3 Oct. 2026. Marrianne Gambaro: https://margampoetry.wordpress.com/ Kelsay Press: https://kelsaybooks.com/  Karnatovskaia LV, Schultz JM, Niven AS, Steele AJ, Baker BA, Philbrick KL, Del Valle KT, Johnson KR, Gajic O, Varga K. System of Psychological Support Based on Positive Suggestions to the Critically Ill Using ICU Doulas. Crit Care Explor. 2021 Apr 26;3(4):e0403.

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of A Cup of Chai by Grace Ro with reflection on food, artificial nutrition, voice, and proxy decision makers.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: Poem: https://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/2705/546  References: Ro, G. (2026). A Cup of Chai. Ars Medica, 20(1), 2 pp. Retrieved from https://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/2705 Doximity profile: https://www.doximity.com/profiles/41f2b871-6817-4978-be66-72fe5825ccb4/view Linkedin profile: www.linkedin.com/in/gracer128

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Morning Tea by Michael L. Wynn with reflection on atrial fibrillation, strokes, space and time. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work:  https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000214487  References: Wynn ML. Morning Tea. Neurology. 2025 Dec 23;105(12):e214487. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000214487. Epub 2025 Nov 20. PMID: 41264895.

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Echo by Wendy Wisner with reflection on hearts, love, and architecture.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com References: Wisner W. Echo. JAMA. 2026;335(17):1538. doi:10.1001/jama.2026.1502  Website: https://www.wendywisner.com/ Book: https://www.amazon.com/New-Life-Poems-Wendy-Wisner/dp/1960329553

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Bargaining by Jacob M. Appel with reflection on deals, education, intellectual pursuits and pragmatic activities. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: https://www.alphaomegaalpha.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/pp15_APPLE_PHAROS_WINT26.pdf    Appel, Jacob M. Bargaining. The Pharos. Winter 2026.

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of The Republic of Rumor by David A. Lee with reflection on trust, the carnivalesque, social media, digital platforms, and misinformation.   Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: Poem: https://www.alphaomegaalpha.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/pp50_51_LEE_PHAROS_WINT26.pdf  Lee, David A. The Republic of Rumor. The Pharos. Winter 2026. References:  Tandar C, Lin J, Stanford F. Combating medical misinformation and rebuilding trust in the USA. The Lancet Digital Health, 2024; 6, e773-e774 Alsan M, Cutler DM. Prescription for Division—Healing the Growing Gap in Physician Trust. JAMA Health Forum. 2025;6(12):e256765. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.6765 Saad  L . Americans' ratings of US professions stay historically low. Published January 13, 2025. Accessed April 12, 2026. https://news.gallup.com/poll/655106/americans-ratings-professions-stay-historically-low.aspx Robert J. Blendon, John M. Benson; Trust in Medicine, the Health System & Public Health. Daedalus 2022; 151 (4): 67–82.

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Sommelier by by Suraj Bala with reflection on reflection, death, resurrection, candles and em dashes.  Work: Poem: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/article-abstract/2839156 Bala S. Sommelier. JAMA Oncol. 2025;11(11):1399. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2025.2896 References:  Meditation for the Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. Rees K, Takeda A, Court R, et al. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2024;2:CD013358. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD013358.pub2. Meditation Programs for Psychological Stress and Well-Being: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Goyal M, Singh S, Sibinga EM, et al. JAMA Internal Medicine. 2014;174(3):357-68. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.13018. Inner Engineering Practices and Advanced 4-Day Isha Yoga Retreat Are Associated With Cannabimimetic Effects With Increased Endocannabinoids and Short-Term and Sustained Improvement in Mental Health: A Prospective Observational Study of Meditators. Sadhasivam S, Alankar S, Maturi R, et al. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine : eCAM. 2020;2020:8438272. doi:10.1155/2020/8438272. Systematic Review for the Medical Applications of Meditation in Randomized Controlled Trials. Kim DY, Hong SH, Jang SH, et al. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022;19(3):1244. doi:10.3390/ijerph19031244.

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Offerings From My Patients and Their Families by Hanna M. Saltzman with reflection on offerings, gifts, complaints, and boundary crossings. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2839104  References: Saltzman HM. Offerings From My Patients and Their Families. JAMA. 2025;334(15):1399. doi:10.1001/jama.2025.12143 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2839104  Hanna Saltzman: www.hannasaltzman.com  Hyde, Lewis. The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property. 25th anniversary ed., Vintage Books, 2007. Campo R. Making Lists in Medicine and Poetry. JAMA. 2025;334(15):1399. doi:10.1001/jama.2025.12103 https://www.etymonline.com/word/offering

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of If We Must Die by Claude McKay with reflection on military metaphors in healthcare and being a fighter. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: If We Must Die by Claude McKay If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursèd lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! References: Metaphor, Oxford English Dictionary, https://www.oed.com/dictionary/metaphor_n?tl=true  Metaphor, Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/metaphor  Aristotle. The Poetics, trans Ingram Bywater. Chapter 21, 1457b1-30  Kim S, Mills H, Brender T, McGowan S, Widera E, Chapman AC, Harrison KL, Lee S, Smith AK, Bamman D, Gologorskaya O, Cobert J. "My Mom Is a Fighter": A Qualitative Analysis of the Use of Combat Metaphors in ICU Clinician Notes. Chest. 2024 Nov;166(5):1162-1172.  Tate T. Your Father's a Fighter; Your Daughter's a Vegetable: A Critical Analysis of the Use of Metaphor in Clinical Practice. Hastings Cent Rep. 2020 Sep;50(5):20-29. Thibodeau PH, Hendricks RK, Boroditsky L. How Linguistic Metaphor Scaffolds Reasoning. Trends Cogn Sci. 2017 Nov;21(11):852-863.

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of With Child by Genevieve Taggard with reflection on pregnancy, maternal mortality, pace, and isolation.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: With Child by Genevieve Taggard  Now I am slow and placid, fond of sun, Like a sleek beast, or a worn one: No slim and languid girl—not glad With the windy trip I once had, But velvet-footed, musing of my own, Torpid, mellow, stupid as a stone. You cleft me with your beauty’s pulse, and now Your pulse has taken body. Care not how The old grace goes, how heavy I am grown, Big with this loneliness, how you alone Ponder our love. Touch my feet and feel How earth tingles, teeming at my heel! Earth’s urge, not mine,—my little death, not hers; And the pure beauty yearns and stirs. It does not heed our ecstacies, it turns With secrets of its own, its own concerns, Toward a windy world of its own, toward stark And solitary places. In the dark, Defiant even now, it tugs and moans To be untangled from these mother’s bones. References: Goldenberg RL, McClure EM. Maternal mortality. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Oct;205(4):293-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2011.07.045. Epub 2011 Aug 4. PMID: 22083050; PMCID: PMC3893928. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/maternal-mortality  Hoyert DL. Maternal mortality rates in the United States, 2023. NCHS Health E-Stats. 2025. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.15620/cdc/174577. Qaseem A, Wilt TJ, McLean RM, Forciea MA; Clinical Guidelines Committee of the American College of Physicians; Denberg TD, Barry MJ, Boyd C, Chow RD, Fitterman N, Harris RP, Humphrey LL, Vijan S. Noninvasive Treatments for Acute, Subacute, and Chronic Low Back Pain: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American College of Physicians. Ann Intern Med. 2017 Apr 4;166(7):514-530. doi: 10.7326/M16-2367. Epub 2017 Feb 14. PMID: 28192789. Moyer CA, Rounds J, Hannum JW. A meta-analysis of massage therapy research. Psychol Bull. 2004 Jan;130(1):3-18. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.130.1.3. PMID: 14717648.

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of [O sweet spontaneous] by E.E. Cummings with reflection on ways of understanding, science, and the clinician patient relationship Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: [O sweet spontaneous] by E.E. Cummings O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting              fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy         beauty      how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods          (but true to the incomparable couch of death thy rhythmic lover              thou answerest them only with                               spring) References: Poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148505/o-sweet-spontaneous-5bf31932ce110

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of "Hollow-Sounding and Mysterious" by Christina Rossetti with reflection on Grave’s disease, hyperthyroidism, and hopelessness. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work:  "Hollow-Sounding and Mysterious" by Christina Rossetti There's no replying To the Wind's sighing, Telling, foretelling, Dying, undying, Dwindling and swelling, Complaining, droning, Whistling and moaning, Ever beginning, Ending, repeating, Hinting and dinning, Lagging and fleeting— We've no replying Living or dying To the Wind's sighing. What are you telling, Variable Wind-tone? What would be teaching, O sinking, swelling, Desolate Wind-moan? Ever for ever Teaching and preaching, Never, ah never Making us wiser— The earliest riser Catches no meaning, The last who hearkens Garners no gleaning Of wisdom's treasure, While the world darkens :— Living or dying, In pain, in pleasure, We've no replying To wordless flying Wind's sighing. References: A Pageant and Other Poems (1881) https://books.google.com/books?id=9Sk-AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false   Arseneau M, Terrell E. “Our Self-Undoing”: Christina Rossetti’s Literary and Somatic Expressions of Graves’ Disease. Humanities. 2019; 8(1):57. https://doi.org/10.3390/h8010057 https://www.thyroid.org/about-american-thyroid-association/history/clark-t-sawin-history-resource-center/thyroid-history-timeline/

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive viewing of The Scream by Edvard Munch with reflection on fear, jaundice, aliens and anxiety.   Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work:  By Edvard Munch - National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69541493   References: Friedlaender GE, Friedlaender LK. Edvard Munch and The Scream: A Cry for Help. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2018 Feb;476(2):200-202.  Rosenblum, Robert (1978). "Introduction". Edvard Munch: Symbols & Images (PDF). Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art. p. 8.  Finger S, Sirgiovanni E. The electrified artist: Edvard Munch's demons, treatments, and sketch of an electrotherapy session (1908-1909). J Hist Neurosci. 2024 Jul-Sep;33(3):241-274. https://lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/please-explain/october-2023/please-explain-why-do-we-scream

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Disappear by Andrea Reilly with reflection on clinical spaces, inadequacy, and anorexia. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: Disappear by Andrea Reilly: https://www.alphaomegaalpha.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/C3_AUT23.pdf

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of The Roses by Seth Peterson with reflection on boundaries, aging and decline.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: Peterson S. The Roses. JAMA. 2025;333(16):1461.  https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2832004  Seth Peterson:  Bluesky: @drsethPT X: @sethpeterson.bsky.social