I am keeping a prisoner; This breath I took two weeks ago; I refuse to let it leave; It paces...

[Originally published in Synapse on December 2, 1993.] David E. Smith, MD, founder and director of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics...

[Originally published in Synapse on November 21, 1996.] Before 1973, the year Roe vs. Wade guaranteed women the right to...

There are days in August when you can hear the grass reaching for the sun. Long days where the air...

[Tied for third place in the Synapse Storytelling Contest creative writing category.] June 20, 2020 Just breath deeply - I...

Originally published on November 15, 1990. Several prominent physicians who have devoted much of their working lives in recent years...

Asiri is one of the widows who attended our first meeting. In Dholuo, Asiri’s native language, the term widow is...

[Third place Storytelling Contest winner for photography.] Where does photography start, and where does it end? And how does a...

[Originally published December 12, 2011.] In many hospital rooms, the steady beeping of a cardiac monitor is the most soothing...

In January, as I prepared to start my traditional “third year” clinical clerkships, I was feeling nervous. In particular, I...

The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman. Strong Black Women Angry Black Women Resilient Black Women The...

Match McGregory’s “Excerpt from the Art of Amateur Sadness” debuts an unwritten anti- self-help book that lists the ways to...

[Originally published on November 13, 1997.] Last week the United States Supreme Court ruled that it would not hear a...

[Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling contest personal essay category.] Happy Pride! I’m writing this with a literal rainbow...

[Originally published in Synapse on November 6, 2003.] What comes to your mind when you hear the words “forensic medicine?”...