The Examined Life Journal | University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

Vol. 7 TABLE OF CONTENTS

George Gessert, Gratitude (FICTION)

Brandon French, Exit Strategies (FICTION)

Travis Laurence Naught, An Uncomfortable Conversation That Ended Vaguely (POETRY)

Judy Hoyer, Room 431 (POETRY)

Jann Everard, Mourning Shift (FICTION)

Sarah Colon, Elinor (POETRY)

Roberta Reb Allen, Two Doctors Who Believed strongly, One Wrongly (NONFICTION)

Douglas Hester, Let Perpetual Light Shine (POETRY)

Katherine Relf-Canas, You Are Beautiful: A Brief Encounter with Radiation Therapy (NONFICTION)

Pegi Deitz Shea, Aphasia (POETRY)

Elaine Hsiang, these days are for (POETRY)

Blake J. Stone, Rex Dies (POETRY)

Kathleen Walsh Spencer, If I Could Hear (NONFICTION)

Richard Spilman, John’s Story (FICTION)

Allen Kesten, A Friend Travels (FICTION)

Carly Bergey, Resonant Voice Exercise (POETRY)

Iain Macdonald, Ambulance (POETRY)

Garin Cycholl, Murmur (FICTION)

Sondra Rosenberg, More than a Handful (NONFICTION)

Maria Wolfe, Skills Session (FICTION)

David Kern, Two by Two (POETRY)

S.F. Wright, D-Day (FICTION)

Elliot Wilner, Bad Check-out (NONFICTION)

Greg Stidham, Tetralogy of Fallot (POETRY)

Sayuri Ayers, Lovemaking in the Cancer Ward (POETRY)

Jed Myers, Gout (POETRY)

Erin L. Thompson, My Father, the Wheelchair Racer (NONFICTION)

Holly Bridges, Signals (FICTION)

C. Alessandra Colaianni, Awake (NONFICTION)

Alejandro Puyana, Old Timer (FICTION)

Tia Cowger, Atlas (POETRY)

Leah Alsaker, Chronic Migraine Syndrome Speaks (POETRY)

Brittany J. Barron, Confessions for Sissy (POETRY)

Andrea Eisenberg, Boxes (NONFICTION)

Julia Hardie, Bus (FICTION)

Kelly Dolejsi, On the Death of My Dog (POETRY)

Margaret DeRitter, Crosscurrents (POETRY)

Dan Glover, Sometimes (FICTION)

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