The Playbook
In the playbook of professionalism, / Where is room for the physician who / Reads German poetry to the dying patient / For days and days until her end?
Author: Jeremy Weleff
Contributing Writer
Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Jeremy Weleff is an MS3 at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. His research interests include access to healthcare and pain management in homeless adults in Detroit, Michigan, pain and palliative care education in the undergraduate medical training, and healthcare professionals' mental health and well being. Poetry is one outlet for expressing many of the uncomfortable, and sometimes absurd aspects of medicine and medical culture.
Contributing Writer
Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Jeremy Weleff is an MS3 at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. His research interests include access to healthcare and pain management in homeless adults in Detroit, Michigan, pain and palliative care education in the undergraduate medical training, and healthcare professionals' mental health and well being. Poetry is one outlet for expressing many of the uncomfortable, and sometimes absurd aspects of medicine and medical culture.