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Issue 4 – 55 Words

Issue 4 – 55 Words

The Story of One

October 7, 2021 | UAMS Online

On top of the overgrown milkweed, a single monarch
butterfly searches for a bloom, or nibbles on the leaf, or
perhaps deposits one egg.

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My 2020

October 5, 2021 | UAMS Online

January 2020 biopsy
What’s the verdict?

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Words Unsaid

October 5, 2021 | UAMS Online

What if my grandma were still alive?

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Practicing Medicine During the Pandemic

October 5, 2021 | UAMS Online

I sit in the back office seeing patients through a video camera, safe.

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If Only Coronaviruses Could Talk

October 5, 2021 | UAMS Online

I imagine myself visiting a lab. While there, I probed into the psyche – if there ever was one – of a coronavirus.

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