Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine

04/18/2026

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR OUR SPRING-SUMMER 2026 JOURNAL!
Submit your poems, short stories, essays, academic papers and videos for consideration by our Editorial Board for our next issue journal out on June 6th.

Thank you again to Arielle Moss for her courageous work, "How Will We Use Our Hands to Heal" that we showcased in our Fall 2026 journal. Here's just one of the images.

04/13/2026

Thank you Nowhere Bookshop 📕 📖 in San Antonio for helping “Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine” anthology— winner of indie book seller’s “Little Engine That Could” Award* — sellout at .
Celebrating your efforts!
*Not really an official award — I made it up 😬😳🫢

04/13/2026

Best day ever! Thank you to San Antonio, a soulful city, who celebrates their poets, like current poet laureate, Eduardo ‘Eddie’Vega, and Narrative Medicine icon, Naomi Shihab Nye, and is unafraid to celebrate unconventional and diverse worlds. I was told this book festival was a gift to the people of San Antonio— how amazing is that? The gift of reading is one everyone should get. Lucky to have the brilliant writer RN musician to be my moderator to talk about Where It Hurts! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

04/06/2026

https://www.theintima.org/blog/what-remains-when-the-body-is-taken-apart-elli-lee

In “Seeds of Life,” I reflected on the first time I encountered death—not as a moment of mourning, but as an educational threshold. In the anatomy lab, my donor’s body became a site of learning: layers to be dissected away, structures to be identified, systems to be mastered. Standing before...

04/01/2026

NEW BOOK REVIEW!
Grace Farris’s graphic memoir "See One, Do One, Teach One: The Art of Becoming a Doctor" tackles a timely topic: After the painful healthcare reckoning of the Covid-19 pandemic, a few years of decline and a dip in med-school applications, people want to go into medicine again. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) reported last December that medical school enrollment topped a record high of 100,723 in 2025 (based on data collected from the 2025-26 application cycle), and women "accounted for 57.2% of all applicants." Apparently, 2019 was the first year when more women than men were enrolled in medical school, and the numbers have only increased since then.

https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/bookreviewseeonedooneteachonegracefarrismd

W. W. Norton & Company Graphic Medicine Columbia Narrative Medicine Columbia University School of Professional Studies

Grace Farris’s graphic memoir See One, Do One, Teach One : The Art of Becoming a Doctor tackles a timely topic: After the painful healthcare reckoning of the Covid-19 pandemic, a few years of decline and a dip in med-school applications, people want to go into medicine again. The Assoc

03/30/2026

https://www.theintima.org/blog/baselines-by-rebecca-a-efroymson

We all approach mammograms differently.  For most of us, they’re a necessary annoyance. Others dread that genetic probabilities and possibilities will catch up with them. Still others don’t think about mammograms. They focus on the problem of the day rather than on prevention. My breast

03/24/2026

Launch day for “Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine” ! Celebrating 63 doctors, nurses, EMTs, therapists and all of the stories they share in the anthology. Still dazed and amazed by the kindness and generosity of the audience and staff at P&T Knitwear on Orchard Street m, the grooviest book shop in NYC. ❤️❤️❤️ to

03/24/2026

The book launch for “Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Front lines of Medicine” was a dream come true! Thank you to all my pals and writers 🙏 for the support and love for this book

03/20/2026

https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/surgeonontheedgefrancesmeihardin

As a physician who went through medical school and residency training in the 1990’s, I’m always on the lookout for books by fellow female physicians that shed the tough outer skin we were taught to wear and dig beneath into the painful underbelly of what it took to get us where we are. So I was ...

03/20/2026

https://www.theintima.org/blog/meet-your-first-patient-a-reflection-on-medical-schools-anatomy-lab-by-pellavi-kenkari

Anatomy lab is a medical school rite of passage. Every year, as summer cools into fall, thousands of naïve, eager First Years across the country meet their very first patient. Facing one’s donor is an emotional moment for many. It can be a carousel of apprehension, fear, gratitude and peace, but ...

03/17/2026

https://www.theintima.org/book-events/the-art-amp-stories-of-narrative-medicine

Overview Featuring contributing doctors and nurses, Xi Chen, Rachel Kowalsky, Jordana Kritzer, and Angelica Recierdo, moderated by Donna Bulseco P&T Knitwear  is pleased to welcome  Donna Bulseco  to discuss and celebrate the publication of her book, 

03/13/2026

https://www.theintima.org/blog/on-laughing-through-the-pain-by-moshe-gordeon

Perusing Intima 's last issue, I noticed some overlapping themes between two very different pieces: my own fictional piece “ Sweet Dreams ,” and “ Humor As (Narrative) Medicine , ” an autoethnographic study by Alyse Keller Johnson, an associate professor of communication studies at CUNY King...