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ART & MEDICINE

Withering love

By Scott Cho, Medical Student at University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine

Coming to the conclusion of empathy Scott Cho, the author of Withering Love:
Sympathy ran out of steam, so much as to care for her own well-being. I am originally from Queens, New York and a first year medical student at UIWSOM.
A promise to herself to never love again After graduating from college, I did full-time volunteer work at clinics in resource-poor
Or rather trust that people are good. settings and hope to work in a similar setting in the future as a clinician.
Offering help was no substitute for
Her feelings of emptiness.
It grew and grew.
It drooped and drooped.
It loved and loved, or at least it tried.
It wrote beautiful poems out of misery,
Then saw that it was all misery.
It resented beauty and everything good.
It waited for time to pass, but it never came.
Time betrayed.
beauty deceived and hurt.
Skepticism became a shield of comfort.
When the sun rose, she only saw shades.

On Cells, Molecules,

and Compassion

By Samantha Studvick (Edited and approved by Courtney Chason)

One cell. Two cells low hemoglobin, hematocrit, Genomic instability. Angiogenesis.
Four cells. Eight. platelets, oh my! Invasion, Metastasis.
To enter this world You’ve got to look at the smear Resisting Cell death.
there can be no mistakes. to figure out the why. Remember the hallmarks of cancer’s breadth

Mitosis. Meiosis. Is the stress of this all making you dizzy? In the midst of all the anemia
No anaphase lag. Fatigued? and lab tests,
Nondisjunction? Remove the spleen! don’t forget the cranial nerves,
Wouldn’t that be a drag? Can I get an iron panel, STAT please? HEENT, upper extremity, and breast.

No drinking, drugs, or saunas One Cell. Two cells. Cancer seems bad.
for mom Four cells. Eight. but the opposite is aging.
block that FGF8, The same process that bore you Mitochondria dysfunction.
and your limb growth is done. is now the mistake. Reactive Oxygen species raging.

Yet here you are. Cancer. Starve yourself. Eliminate your stress.
Alive and well. Those ingenious cells. What difference will it make?
blood coursing. Too slow? dvT. Hijacking normal processes To live an extra day or two?
Stuck in the spleen? Sickle cell. to make you unwell. Just eat your chocolate cake.

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