2020 Fall Voices

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VOICESabout usVoices is a literary magazine of the Duke University School of Medicine. Wepublish varied forms of creative expression from the medical community, andwelcome submissions from patients, students, healthcare providers, employees,families, and friends. Our goal is to publish a range of unique voices in thehealthcare system. We hope that as you read through the pieces published inthis issue, you will be inspired to submit something as well. All submissionscan be sent to dukemedvoices@gmail.com or online at sites.duke.edu/voices.letter from the editors2020 will certainly be a year seared into our collective memory. Initial newsreelsof Australian bush fires quickly escalated to panic over one of the largestviral pandemics since the 1918 influenza outbreak, and then into an impassionedcivil rights movement that will impact not only those who marched. Atmoments like these, it is ever more important that we raise our voices to beheard. Our role here at Voices is to broadcast those voices to the rest of ourcommunity and beyond. We do not profess to know the experiences of others,but we want to make sure those experiences are known to the world.To this purpose, we sponsored a COVID-19 writing contest under the guidanceof the Trent Center for Bioethics Humanities & History of Medicine. Thefirst place winner, Ms. F. Hayden Mulligan’s “The COVID-19 Chronicles,” ispublished here in its entirety. The second and third place winners will be publishedin future issues. From this contest and other submissions from the ongoingpandemic period, we anticipate that we will soon publish a COVID-19special issue, detailing the experiences of those in the healthcare system. Atthe same time, we welcome pieces related to race and medicine, and hope tofurther explore the topic in future issues.In this issue, we have also included pieces that recall a time of a differentnormal. We hope we will one day return to a time without masked facial expressionsand reminisce our current tribulations through rose-colored glasses.However, in the same breath, we also wish to see a more equitable futuremolded and improved by this pandemic. Until then, as always, we would loveto hear your thoughts and ideas at dukemedvoices@gmail.com.Your co-editors-in-chief,Rui Dai and Norah Karlovich
table of contentsLetter From the Editors Rui Dai, Norah Karlovich2Reflections on AA Megha GuptaWee Woo Wagon Kelsey GraywillMeeting in Moments Seth FlynnTwo Weeks in Palliative Care Lindsey ChewThe COVID-19 Chronicles F. Hayden Mulligan, PA-CVoices COVID-19 Writing Contest WinnerOld Man Medicine Jenna S. Hynes, MDExtracurriculars Danielle Ellis, MD4-55667-99-1011-12Austin Ayer MS2Seth Flynn MS2Emily Hatheway MS2Kira Panzer MS2Isabelle Byers MS3Devon DiPalma MS3Megha Gupta MS3Jeffrey Baker MD, PhDMarjorie Miller MANikki VangsnesThe Family Secret Dana Creighton13-14associate editorsRosa Yang MS3Sarah Hodges MS4Shan McBurney-Lin MS4Thao Nguyen MS4Zachary Smothers MS4Sam Hofacker, MD PGY1faculty & staff editorsSneha Mantri MDBrian Quaranta MDspecial thanksBruce Hillman MD, Karen Jooste MD, Jennifer Lawson MD, andFrancis Neelon MDBACKGROUND PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS:COVER and CREDITS/CONTENTS: Qiang Miao, PhD student
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