A More Perfect Union
Who am I to say that I am an artist? / Itʼs the wanting / the need to express…
Tag: prose
Contributing Writer
Oregon Health & Science University
Audrey Tran is a third year medical student at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, OR, in the class of 2021. In 2015, she graduated from Wellesley College with a Bachelor of Arts in biochemistry. She is an interested in advocacy, health policy, and the communication of ideas to the general public through writing and illustration. In her free time, she writes and sings music, often breaking out into song in the hum of the tissue culture hoods or empty stairwells. Audrey is considering multiple specialties but is drawn to pediatrics and internal medicine.
loser
You lose / your pen with / the red and blue and black ink
6 y/o F: Patient Perspective of Illness
mom, what’s loo-skeem-ya? / oh okay — does that mean I’m loo-skeem-ya?
Nose
I take a deep breath / to calm myself / before walking into the storm / of OR shadowing.
Daydream
On the other side there is a home, / With green grass, red rosebushes, and a pool where sharks swim in the deep end.
To the Girl with the Golden Heart Earrings
There lives a city only with pairs permitting. / Two lungs move together with love in the air / she takes his breath away when they’re a pair.
Is This Man or Is This Flesh?
Is this man or is this flesh / That implores my expertise? / Is it meat or is it human / When we meet, which do I see?
Interview With My Donor Body
What happened to you? / I don’t remember / Did it hurt? / Yes boy, oh yes
Hanging On
The scent of illness, stifling and spoiled / Masked by antiseptics.
The Eternal: The Untouchable
What an endeavor it is: / To reach out and touch humanity.
Operational
Blood flakes / fall onto the /blue, sterile field from / crimson-smeared green / light grips.
Starved
She suffers from bouts of amenorrhea. / She masticates as often as the day is black.
Contributing Writer
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Lawren Wooten is a second medical student at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC class of 2022. In 2014, she graduated from Cornell University College of Human Ecology with a Bachelor of Science in human biology, health and society. In 2016, she graduated from George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences with a Master of Science in integrative medicine. She enjoys playing the cello, working with children and doing crosswords in her free time. After graduating medical school, Lawren would like to pursue a career in general pediatrics or a pediatric subspecialty.