Opioids
It never ends / That pain / Running through my back in a huff
Tag: poetry
Writer-in-Training
Drexel University College of Medicine
Rohit is a second year medical student at Drexel University College of Medicine. He graduated from Georgetown University in 2012, and then went on to teach reading to elementary school students for two years. After teaching, he worked in health policy for a year, and then matriculated to medical school. Currently, he is pursuing an MD/MPH degree and hopes to work in community health and harm reduction. He is passionate about health equity, LGBTQ rights, and racial justice. By far, his greatest skill is reciting lines from Pixar’s Up.
My Doctor
I knew you were a champion, / though I never saw you win, / by the precision in your choices / and your knowing, tired grin.
Antithetic
A silhouette sits in my mind / No purer beauty that I could find / Than that which rests right by my side / And teases me.
Unbroken
At 5 a.m. the alarm clock rings / His eyes peel open, he can’t see a thing / And he doesn’t know what today will bring / But his sleep is broken.
My White Coat
My White Coat / Stuffed heavy with gadgets, notes, and articles to read / It’s an indicator to the layman of my lifelong obsession / To understanding the human condition
The Imposters
Speak with authority / Let the words / Last vestiges of dead languages / Rife with history / Flow smooth as butter from your tongue
Depression
I don’t look both ways when I cross the street / Sometimes I forget I’m alive / I take a step onto the road
Sunset
a nightingale knows best. / her call comes forth / as the daylight dwindles, / and, listen… i hear her now.
That Is Love
In class they ask me / What is love? / To prompt a philosophical discussion.
Generosity
I do not want to do this to you / My heart wrenches / For the pain we inflict
Salt
My attending / looked at me / and asked, / What is killing your patient?
In The Beginning
and / finally / She arrived / from the pool.
Contributing Writer
University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix Family Medicine Residency Program
Herbert B. Rosenbaum, M.D., is a proud native of San Antonio, Texas, an alumnus of The George Washington University, graduate of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and resident physician at University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix Family Medicine Residency Program. His medical interests include family medicine, primary care, geriatric medicine, medical politics, and end-of-life management. Dr. Rosenbaum urges his physician and medical student readers to start meaningfully addressing the elephant in the room (and perhaps American medical culture's biggest failure): death and dying - a common subject of many of his creative works and critical essays.
