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September 30, 2021
2021
Yvette Perry
Re-set

"I grew from the experience – though I think it aged me 10 years!" This is how a resident described a turning point with a specific patient when he recognized how burned out he was.

August 24, 2021
2021
Elle Klassen
Words of Silver

Although he had been through many stressful experiences in his life and recently, he always held onto his positive outlook. He took particular care to use words intentionally, paying attention to their connotations, so that his positivity extended to those that he interacted with as well.

February 4, 2021
2019
Ravenna Raven
In the Cath Lab

“I’ve always loved hearts,” she said. She was a cardiac nurse who had been drawn to a job in the catheterization laboratory. “It’s so rare to have an opportunity to immediately do something good for somebody, but it happens often in the cath lab,” she told me.

October 13, 2020
2020
Frankie Abralind
PPE

She was tired after working twelve straight days on her current rotation. It was her third year of medical school, and she was already feeling burnt out. “I have five more years like this,” she said. “My sister tells me, ‘Keep pushing, you can get through it,’ but I don’t know if I can.”

August 24, 2020
2020
Jenny Hegland
Skin

He had been thinking a lot about race over the past several months. He’s a White man with two children: a 20-year-old biological son who is White, and an 18-year-old adopted daughter who is Black.

Jenny Hegland
July 29, 2024
2023

Digging In

Jenny Hegland
July 29, 2024
2023

“Life is complex and dirty, but digging in is important to me,” she said. “Maybe if more of us understood history, we could understand each other better.”

Tagged: Jenny Hegland, American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Care (AAHPM), Healthcare Staff

Guest User
June 18, 2024
2022

Seams

Guest User
June 18, 2024
2022

We are expected to research, contribute to scholarship,  earn grants – all on our own time.

Tagged: CLP Practicum Poems, Matt McBride

Guest User
May 30, 2024
2023

Rescue

Guest User
May 30, 2024
2023

We are expected to research, contribute to scholarship,  earn grants – all on our own time.

Tagged: CLP Practicum Poems, Avni Vyas

Jenny Hegland
April 29, 2024
2023

The Waiting Room

Jenny Hegland
April 29, 2024
2023

Every day, I try to see through the patient lens, and I ask: what can we do to change this broken system?

Tagged: Medical Students, Jenny Hegland

Elizabeth Pringle
March 28, 2024
2023

Captain of My Ship

Elizabeth Pringle
March 28, 2024
2023

This past year, he was a right defensive tackle on his school football team, but for the past two and a half years, he’d been caring for his dad, who had cancer.

Tagged: Elizabeth Pringle, Inova Schar Cancer Institute, Family, Communities

Ravenna Raven
February 28, 2024
2019

Caregiver's Notes

Ravenna Raven
February 28, 2024
2019

She was very proud of her daughter and has hopes for “a bright future that’s as pain free as possible”

Tagged: Healthcare Staff, Ravenna Raven, Mayo Clinic Transform Conference

Elle Klassen
November 13, 2023
2022

We Can Be Kind

Elle Klassen
November 13, 2023
2022

“I’m trying to focus on doing little things to make people feel better during everything that’s going on in the world,” she told me.

Tagged: Healthcare Staff, Elle Klassen, Cambia, Beck Klassen

Jenny Hegland
October 30, 2023
2023

what gives

Jenny Hegland
October 30, 2023
2023

“It’s hard to see others struggle,” she said. “How can I help with their struggle without struggling myself?”

Tagged: Medical Students, Jenny Hegland

Yvette Perry
October 4, 2023
2023

Black Girls Sing of Freedom

Yvette Perry
October 4, 2023
2023

"I'd tell her it's OK to be loud...it's OK to challenge and to bring all of you into these spaces where no one looks like you..."

Tagged: Yvette Perry, Medical Students, Health4Equity

Zina Mercil
March 31, 2023
2022

Delicate Hope

Zina Mercil
March 31, 2023
2022

She was in the depths of transition and change in this “concentrated time.”

Tagged: Healthcare Staff, Department of Health and Social Welfare, Zina Mercil

Guest User
March 2, 2023
2022

Safety Is A Six Letter Word

Guest User
March 2, 2023
2022

Retired from the military, she was brought back into nursing during the COVID pandemic.

Tagged: Certified Listener Poet, CLP Practicum Poems, poem

Jenny Hegland
January 29, 2023
2023

New Year’s Evolution

Jenny Hegland
January 29, 2023
2023

“I'm continuously questioning: did I do it right?" she said. "I’ve always done a good amount of second-guessing, but I’m re-learning how to show up differently.”

Tagged: Healthcare Staff, Jenny Hegland, poem, American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Care (AAHPM)

Jenny Hegland
December 30, 2022

Wrapped

Jenny Hegland
December 30, 2022

“It’s weird,” she said. “This is one of the biggest accomplishments of my life, but it doesn’t feel like it.”

Tagged: Jenny Hegland, Veterans Affairs Health Care Talent Academy (HCTA), Medical Students

Yvette Perry
December 2, 2022
2022

Libation

Yvette Perry
December 2, 2022
2022

"It changed me; It changed the way I look at life," said this woman about her profound experience during her pregnancy.

Tagged: Healthcare Staff, Yvette Perry, Health4Equity

Ravenna Raven
October 26, 2022
2022

Our Own Legacy

Ravenna Raven
October 26, 2022
2022

“I’m not in a good place with everything happening in the world,” this poemee said.

Tagged: Healthcare Staff, Ravenna Raven, Department of Health and Social Welfare

Jenny Hegland
September 30, 2022
2022

An Impossible Choice

Jenny Hegland
September 30, 2022
2022

“It’s been more challenging than normal lately,” she said. “I’m only one person. It's a struggle for me to say no, but I can’t do everything that’s being asked of me right now.”

Tagged: Jenny Hegland, Healthcare Staff, Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System

Mindy Shah
July 23, 2022
2022

Forward

Mindy Shah
July 23, 2022
2022

"I've been processing how to make the most of the small amount of life we have to live," said this physician.

Tagged: Healthcare Staff, Yvette Perry

Yvette Perry
June 30, 2022
2022

Recursion

Yvette Perry
June 30, 2022
2022

"I've been processing how to make the most of the small amount of life we have to live," said this physician.

Tagged: Healthcare Staff, Yvette Perry

Jenny Hegland
April 27, 2022
2021

Who's Noticing?

Jenny Hegland
April 27, 2022
2021

"I feel like this journey is unfolding before me,“ he said.

Tagged: Jenny Hegland, Healthcare Staff, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Elle Klassen
March 31, 2022
2022

Feeling Small

Elle Klassen
March 31, 2022
2022

“I like feeling small,” he told me. “Nature has always made me feel small.” He described the sense of wonder that feeling gave him.

Tagged: Healthcare Staff, Elle Klassen, Cambia

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