All Newsletters

October 2026

• The Patient Nobody Was Responsible For

• Interview with the Vampire: A Clinical Encounter

September 2026

• A Funny Thing Happened at the Doctor’s Office

• The Feng Shui Master’s Patient: Part II

• The Feng Shui Master’s Patient: Part I

• The Patients I Apologized To

August 2026

• The Patient Who Knows a Doctor

• The Girl with the Bad Attitude

July, 2026

• The Patient We Cannot Cure

• The Patient Who Wanted a Male Doctor

June, 2026

• The Patient Who Runs Toward Fire

• The Poor Historian

May, 2026

• The Lying Patient

• Three Stories About Pockets

• My Mother’s Unfounded Confidence

• The Patient Who Asked ChatGPT First

April, 2026

• The Patient Who Paid Me a Complimented

• Today, Consented enters the world

• Before You Read Consented

• Not Consented

March, 2026

• Before You Trust Your Doctor

• Behind the Chart: The Embodied Pain Scale

• The Traumatized Patient (by medicine)

• Behind the Chart: Dismantling Medical Racism

• The Patient Who Has to Prove Their Pain

• Behind the Chart: My Tongue and I

• The Patient Outside the Box

February, 2026

• Behind the Chart: Performing Medicine

• The Patient Between Departments

• The Unreliable Patient

• The Difficult Patient

• For the Love of Giving a Shit

January, 2026

• The Patient Who’ll “Feel a Little Pinch”

• The Patient with All the Labels

• The Overreacting Mother

• The Long Way Home, Part II: Returning

December, 2025

• The Long Way Home, Part I: Leaving

• The Patient Who Wanted a Second Opinion

• The Patient with Broken Wings

• The Interesting Patient

November, 2025

• The Trash Collector’s Son

• The Patient with the Splinter

• The Medicaid Patient

• The Patient Who Googled Her Symptoms

October, 2025

• The Patient Who Laughed Out a Baby

• The Abandoned Patient

• The Guilty Mother

September, 2025

• The Lucky Patient

• The Excited Patient

July, 2025

• The Immigrant Patient (and doctor)

• Medical Gaslighting & Medical Trauma (video)

• The Immigrant Patient

June, 2025

• The Gaslit Patient

May, 2025

• The Thieving Mother (video/performance)

• The Bad Doctor

March, 2025

• The Angry Daughter

February, 2025

• “One More Thing”

• 14 ways to “heart” (Part 2)

• 14 ways to “heart” (Part 1)

January, 2025

• May You Belong

• The Whole Patient

December, 2024

• The Uncomfortable Patient

• Don’t Be A Jerk

November, 2024

• The “Ungrateful” Patient

• 50 Ways I’ve Got You

October, 2024

• How To Save A Life

• I’m on #TeamPatient

September, 2024

• We Are Not People’s Priority

• My Mama Says Thank You

• “I don’t know” — One of the Best Things a Doctor Can Say

• My Mother Was A Thief - Part 2

• My Mother Was A Thief - Part 1

• My Unspoken Words

• Why We Eat Mooncakes

• I Pledge to Trust Women

August, 2024

• To Wear The Moon

• The Fat Patient

July, 2024

• I Can Be Wrong

• The Self-Blaming Patient

June, 2024

• It’s Not All In Your Head

May, 2024

• Tai Nai Nai

April, 2024

• All the other bad stuff my mother did.

• The Girl Who Lost All Her Hair