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Dream Mirror

by Aishwarya Gautam

Because medicine reflects the commonality of human struggles, healthcare workers can see parallels between their patients' lives and their own. This piece speaks to the impact that witnessing tough patient encounters can have on healthcare workers.

September 26, 2025
Arts and Poetry, Featured, Mental Health and Wellness, Uncategorized, Words from the Wards

“Function-ologist”

by Ervin Anies, MD

These poem stanzas help to provide further fidelity on the small specialty that is Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R). While many other specialties focus on specific organs, “our organ” is function and this piece hopefully sheds some light on how we preserve it and improve it in all the patients we treat.

March 31, 2025
Arts and Poetry, Featured, Journeys in Education, Patient Advocacy, Uncategorized, Words from the Wards

Recent Articles

September 26, 2025

Dream Mirror

Because medicine reflects the commonality of human struggles, healthcare workers can see parallels between their patients' lives and their...

by Aishwarya Gautam
March 31, 2025

“Function-ologist”

These poem stanzas help to provide further fidelity on the small specialty that is Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R)....

by Ervin Anies, MD
March 1, 2025

Three Sentiments

Medical student recollects hospitalization with pneumonia as a pivotal childhood experience that shaped his values. The care he received...

by Esewi Aifuwa
February 3, 2025

Food and medicine in America: harms of industrialization, and paths to healing

Food production and distribution and medical training and care have been similarly corrupted due to the prioritization of profit...

by Olivia Dhaliwal
December 23, 2024

Homeschool

Lisa Roskes describes the many lessons learned from my close relationship with her grandmother. Despite choosing a career in...

by Lani Roskes
December 5, 2024

Mirrored Resilience: Reflection from a Hospital Bed

The poem describes the profound impact of an encounter between Catherin Potin, the narrator, recovering from a motor vehicle...

by Catherine Potin
November 25, 2024

15%

Taylor Selby wrote this poem while trying to manage her time between studying for boards and her grandmas birthday...

by Taylor Selby
September 18, 2024

Old Pennies and Jelly Skin

This piece is inspired by a patient encounter with a middle-aged woman who was recently diagnosed with a severe...

by Sriya Donthi
August 9, 2024

The Forgotten Patient

Elise Kao MS3 encounters a struggling addiction patient in the Emergency Department who reinforces their determination to pursue...

by Elise Kao
June 24, 2024

Surgery: Beauty and Violence

Melinda Staub reflects on surgery as a both violence and healing, delving on medicine's intricate ethical and practical landscape....

by Melinda Staub
May 29, 2024

How to Declare Someone Dead: A Brief Reflection

Shannon Fang, medical student, comments on the necessity of processing emotionally stressful encounters in medicine.

by Shannon Fang
April 2, 2024

Celeste’s Bliss

Medical student Medha Palnati describes barriers to care, and highlights the need for greater awareness and sensitivity in patient...

by Medha Palnati
February 24, 2024

The Blessing, The Grocery Store

Medical student Sabrina Lazar discovers a local MENA-owned grocery store that offers not only essential ingredients but also a...

by Sabrina Lazar
February 15, 2024

Misery: A Small Collection of Patients’ Stories

Dr. Marissa Mayfield uses a trio of poems to teleport readers into the reality of medical crises and highlight...

by Marissa Mayfield, MD, MSPH
February 12, 2024

Another Chronic Painer

Dr. Ervin Anies introduces a reverse poem to help delve into the multifactorial and complicated picture that is treating...

by Ervin Anies, MD
December 20, 2023

76-Year-Old with a Neck Mass

This piece is a reflection of the first few months of Sriya's clinical years experience. There are a thousand...

by Sriya Donthi

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Mosaic in Medicine

Mosaic in Medicine is the online peer-reviewed publication for underrepresented voices in medicine. Mosaic in Medicine serves as a structured space for publication, discussion and dissemination of peer-reviewed material, as well as a virtual domain for sharing the perspectives of underrepresented students throughout the medical education and health care profession pipeline. The aim is to not only discuss the challenges we face, but also to educate ourselves and celebrate our successes.

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