Welcome to Ars Medica Volume 19, Issue 1

This issue of Ars Medica contains an editorial plus 7 articles, 4 Photo Essays, and 3 poems. They include an editorial by Allison Crawford: The Natural Order of Things: Nature as a Metaphor for the Body, Illness, and Renewal

Prose

Gravity Rounds by Sruthi Valluri

The Art of Receiving Care by Carol Krause

2 + 2 = Streptococcus by Gabriel Francisco Nibungco

The Hub for Dying Teenagers: A Call for Change in Organ Donation and Transplantation by Alisha Hiebert

Prognosis in Passing by Kate E. Johnson

Code Status by Harriet Squier

Storytelling on the Borders by Paula Holmes-Rodman

Photo Essays

Rendezvous with the Senses, a Brainstem’s Journey by Edison Tenecela

The Embodied Pain Scale  by Zed Zha

Ocean Swimming by Frances Milat

The Illusion of Resolution by Joanne Sinai

Poetry

Dream of a Needle / Articulate, Please / When the Screen Retracts by Susan Sample

Choose Your Words Wisely by Karyssa Richardson

Seizures or a New Brain: There Will Be a Reckoning by Kimberly Anyadike

Thank you for reading this issue of Ars Medica. We hope you are having a wonderful summer.

Allison Crawford, Editor-in-Chief

Marilyn Bittman, Managing Editor