By Olivia Brown
Living a pandemic.
Loss. Jobs, people, freedoms.
Communication. Severed, transformed, renewed.
Prevention. Necessary, optional, undesired.
Remission. Breath, rest, normalcy?
No. Again-
Repeat. Variant, strain, symptoms.
Virtual. Learning, medicine, meetings.
Emotions. Exhausted, anxious, angry.
Science. Contested, feared, politicized.
When will missing class be a choice again?
Now- we wait for the end.
Or yet another beginning.
Olivia Paige Brown is a second-year medical student at UAMS who uses writing as an outlet to convey the ins and outs of a life in healthcare.