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New Essay in

“Most days, I try to conceal my dual citizenship in the countries of doctor and patient. No person in suffering wants to hear about someone else’s pain… But I was a patient first, and sometimes my mind gets away from me.”

Deep Remission, the Los Angeles Review

New poem in JAMA

As an associate editor for the Journal of General Internal Medicine’s Healing Arts section, I started to notice recurring themes in my poetry critiques. So, I tried to distill my thoughts on how to approach poetry in medicine and they turned into a poem. Check out “Ars Poetica Medica” in the April 8, 2026 issue of JAMA as well as the accompanying commentary by Rafael Campo.