Poetry

Please enjoy these pieces from our LMSA community!
The winners for this category are:
1st: "Calloused Hands" by Iliana Sanchez-Oberkircher
2nd: "Sangre Morena" by Lorena Miss Ozuna
3rd: "El Cornejo" by Matthew Rios
Congratulations, everyone!

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A Patient’s Puzzle: Navigating Through Specialists

Michelle Chan Sanchez Shirley Chan Sanchez Liliana Pellegrini Within the healthcare realm where specialists shine bright Is where medical...

No Boxes

J Conrado, MS2 My existence is a resistance The size of my body offends you But I refuse to diminish My value is not linked to my...

Small Collection of Creative Writing Pieces

Andrea de Abre e Gouvea, MS2 University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health I. Yarn Tangled and knotted on...

I’m only 17

Valentina Larrivey, MS3 Emory University School of Medicine It’s 1968. I’m only 17. Two years in Mexicali, gathering paperwork, but I am...

Una vez

Genaro Herrera Cano, MS3 University of Connecticut's School of Medicine Una vez, Caras aparecieron, Aquellas de mi sangre, Poblando la...

Mi casa en pedazos

Camila Hernandez-Blanco, MS2 NYU Grossman School of Medicine entre las paredes escucho tu voz dulce como de leche llamándome, amándome...

When A Hero Falls

Eli Hernandez Quiroz, MS2 Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine About the Author: Eli Hernandez Quiroz is a second-year medical student at...

Flee from Me

Marcos Ortiz, MS2 Morehouse School Of Medicine I thought that if I raced it to the finish line and won, It would retreat, afraid to...

apology

Sofia Krause Campos, MS University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson I wanted to leave you in the vast lands bordered by great...

Leap of Faith

Patricio Ruano, MS3 Michigan State University I’m a deer caught in the headlights of the future I’ve always worked for. I can’t stop its...

La Clínica en Brasil

Kalina Machado, MS3 Otra vez I was en la estrada, This one the rain had undressed. Erased the paint from years ago, Scooped out some...

Beauty after an MVA

Ayse Guvenilir, MS1 i haven’t showered in a week and a half my hair is in disarray thousands of knots leaving it flattened and sealed and...

Un Dialogo Con F.G. Lorca

Tristan Ibarra, University of Texas A&M A José Raúl Cárdenas y Kathryn Cole Busco, busco, busco Busco luces de la luna Arroyo de romances...

El Cornejo

Matthew Rios, MS2 Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Dogwood / El Cornejo About the Author: Matthew (Mateo) Rios is a...

Calloused Hands

Iliana Sanchez-Oberkircher, MS3 Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine at the University of Houston Froto mis manos afuera del...

From the Rubble

Richard Suarez, MS4 FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Broken and scattered These pieces lay, One, on top of another. Monochromatic...

Sangre Morena

Lorena Miss Ozuna, B.S University of Michigan Ann Arbor I stand coated and educated. But they don’t know; I come from healers. From...

Abuela’s Healing

Raquel Garcia, MS2 Duke University School of Medicine I remember the days I used to stay at my Abuela’s house, too sick to go to school....

Mosaic

Richard Suarez, MS4 FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Heads, Tails, Floating in a Never ending dance of Swirls and twirls, And...