Welcome to INTIMA: 100% Human Written* intimajournal.substack.com/p… Shown: © Ulnar Deviation by Madeleine Cheshire Fall 2026 Intima Madeline Cheshire is a fourth-year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, pursuing residency in neurology. Her visual art and written work explore how illness lives within families. Her writing in the spirit of narrative medicine has appeared in the Journal of Palliative Medicine

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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

The Adopted Limb, a short story by Ethan Bell intimajournal.substack.com/p…

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

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…

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…

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.

If you didn’t zip a single body bag during covid…I want you to be quiet. Unless you worked during covid I don’t want to hear what you think about Dr. Anthony Fauci…

A Bunny, Beauty and Remembering to Live: A reflection by narrative medicine practitioner Alexis Rehrmann theintima.org/blog/a-bunny-b…