Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine: More Voices: a second anthology

Every Friday, thousands of readers of Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine (www.pulsemagazine.org) receive a riveting first-person story or poem about health care. Written by patients and doctors, nurses and caregivers, students and mental health professionals, these intimate and beautifully crafted pieces capture the authentic voices of people whose lives have been changed by their healthcare experiences. More Voices is the second published collection of Pulse writing. It contains every story and poem published in Pulse between April 24, 2009 and December 31, 2010, Each Day, Same An intern describes her most compelling patient--the one who drives her crazy. Late A family physician figures out why he always runs behind. One More Child Left A six-year-old has a broken arm, but no one can find a specialist to treat him. The Resilient Stabbed in the aorta, a man lives to tell the cheerful tale. Confessions of a Seventy-Five-Year-Old Drug A pelvic fracture has unintended consequences. Perri Klass MD had this to say about The First Year, the first collection of Pulse stories poems, in her Journal of the American Medical Association "All of the stories in this book...are told with a kind of urgency; these encounters change lives and mark memories. This collection is in some sense about writing for one’s life..."