Intima is a literary journal focused on narrative medicine. Order our 'best-of' anthology "Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine"
Joined June 2011
- Tweets2.3K
- Following3.3K
- Followers2.9K
- Likes2.2K
Waking Without Her in the World: Remembering activist and writer Elena Schwolsky by Mario de la Cruz
theintima.org/blog/waking-wi…
#narrativemedicine #activist #AIDS #Havana
Answering Voltaire’s Call: How do you cultivate your soul garden? A reflection by family medicine nurse and medical humanities advocate Ariel Bugosh Boswell
theintima.org/blog/thyroids-…
What We Hear at the Dinner Table: A reflection by poet Jamie L. Smith about immigrant parents, their children, mental health and conversations we rarely have theintima.org/blog/what-we-h…
A singular description and answer to the question, "What is narrative medicine?" by Dr. Sayantani DasGupta in Creative Nonfiction
Narrative Medicine, Narrative Humility creativenonfiction.org/writi…
One memorable passage to tempt you to read it all:
"Narrative humility means understanding that stories are not merely receptacles of facts, but that every story holds some element of the unknowable. It simultaneously reminds us that there are larger sociopolitical power structures that marginalize certain sorts of stories and privilege others. Narrative humility suggests an inward orientation, requiring not only that we learn about others, but that we begin by learning about ourselves—how our past cadre of life stories has built our prejudices and preferences, and how by the very act of listening, we ourselves are always changed into different kinds of listeners."
Shown: © "Out of Focus" by Edith Ben-Eboh. Pen and pastel
Initiating a Dialogue with Patients: The Power of Asking, Not Telling by Victoria Yuan theintima.org/blog/patientdi…
Victoria Yuan, who is Intima's Studio Art Editor, is a third-year medical student at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. She graduated from Stanford University, where she earned a BS in Biomedical Computation, produced podcasts with the Stanford Storytelling Project, and served as the editor-in-chief for Herodotus, the university’s history research journal.
@UCLA @Stanford @StanfordMedMuse
The Intima retweeted
Get your poems, short stories, essays, artwork and academic work ready for review. Our Call for Submissions for the Fall-Winter 2026-27 issue opens in a week on August 28th for one month (closing on September 28th at 11:59pm EST). #MedTwitter #NursingStudents #NurseTwitter
Shown here: Out of Focus by Edith Ben-Eboh, a third-year medical student at the Geisel School of Medicine who engages in art as a form of reflection and creative expression.
When a person becomes a patient, the focus turns to the task of care and sometimes, as this artwork shows, the “separation reflects how easily a patient’s broader context can fall out of focus,” states the artist.
A Reflection on Fathers and Daughters: “You need to be on your best behavior”
In a short essay, writer Dixie L King explores the shift in balance that occurs when parents become ill, especially when a father is an MD
@The_Intima intimajournal.substack.com/p…
Get your poems, short stories, essays, artwork and academic work ready for review. Our Call for Submissions for the Fall-Winter 2026-27 issue opens in a week on August 28th for one month (closing on September 28th at 11:59pm EST). #MedTwitter #NursingStudents #NurseTwitter
Shown here: Out of Focus by Edith Ben-Eboh, a third-year medical student at the Geisel School of Medicine who engages in art as a form of reflection and creative expression.
When a person becomes a patient, the focus turns to the task of care and sometimes, as this artwork shows, the “separation reflects how easily a patient’s broader context can fall out of focus,” states the artist.
Read the short essay, "Voices That Remain: A dialogue about mentors, memory and what matters," by Gabriele Micozzi, an Italian writer, poet, professor and consultant. His literary work explores body, language, power, vulnerability, desire, illness, healing and what he calls “literary biodiversity”: the coexistence of poetry, prose, theater, science and embodied experience.
theintima.org/blog/voices-th…
#narrativemedicine #memory @GabrieleMicozzi #medtwitter #poetry
Living Alongside Loss: A reflection on grief, rituals, and gratitude by Diego R. Hijano theintima.org/blog/living-al…
The Intima retweeted
We are in the middle of a measles outbreak. A cyclospora outbreak. RFK is dismantling our public health system & scientific research. Millions have lost their health care. And Senate Republicans spent today attacking Dr. Fauci.
A Bunny, Beauty and Remembering to Live: A reflection by narrative medicine practitioner Alexis Rehrmann theintima.org/blog/a-bunny-b…
When the Script Is Not Enough: A reflection about clinical interviews by medical student Macie Garner
"In medical training, preparation is often framed as mastery: know the history, organize the interview, gather the information. These skills matter, but there is another kind of preparation that is harder to teach—preparing to notice when another person’s humanity interrupts the script."
Read the whole essay for more theintima.org/blog/when-the-…
#medschool #narrativemedicine
