Auscultation

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Echo by Wendy Wisner with reflection on hearts, love, and architecture.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com References: Wisner W. Echo. JAMA. 2026;335(17):1538. doi:10.1001/jama.2026.1502  Website: https://www.wendywisner.com/ Book: https://www.amazon.com/New-Life-Poems-Wendy-Wisner/dp/1960329553  

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Bargaining by Jacob M. Appel with reflection on deals, education, intellectual pursuits and pragmatic activities. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: https://www.alphaomegaalpha.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/pp15_APPLE_PHAROS_WINT26.pdf    Appel, Jacob M. Bargaining. The Pharos. Winter 2026. 

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of The Republic of Rumor by David A. Lee with reflection on trust, the carnivalesque, social media, digital platforms, and misinformation.   Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: Poem: https://www.alphaomegaalpha.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/pp50_51_LEE_PHAROS_WINT26.pdf   Lee, David A. The Republic of Rumor. The Pharos. Winter 20...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Sommelier by by Suraj Bala with reflection on reflection, death, resurrection, candles and em dashes.  Work: Poem: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/article-abstract/2839156 Bala S. Sommelier. JAMA Oncol. 2025;11(11):1399. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2025.2896 References:  Meditation for the Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovasc...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Offerings From My Patients and Their Families by Hanna M. Saltzman with reflection on offerings, gifts, complaints, and boundary crossings. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2839104   References: Saltzman HM. Offerings From My Patients and Their Families. JAMA. 2025;334(1...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of If We Must Die by Claude McKay with reflection on military metaphors in healthcare and being a fighter. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: If We Must Die by Claude McKay If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursè...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of With Child by Genevieve Taggard with reflection on pregnancy, maternal mortality, pace, and isolation.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: With Child by Genevieve Taggard  Now I am slow and placid, fond of sun, Like a sleek beast, or a worn one: No slim and languid girl—not glad With the windy trip I once had, But velvet-foote...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of [O sweet spontaneous] by E.E. Cummings with reflection on ways of understanding, science, and the clinician patient relationship Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: [O sweet spontaneous] by E.E. Cummings O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting              fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of "Hollow-Sounding and Mysterious" by Christina Rossetti with reflection on Grave’s disease, hyperthyroidism, and hopelessness. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work:  "Hollow-Sounding and Mysterious" by Christina Rossetti There's no replying To the Wind's sighing, Telling, foretelling, Dying, undying,...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive viewing of The Scream by Edvard Munch with reflection on fear, jaundice, aliens and anxiety.   Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work:  By Edvard Munch - National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69541493   References: Friedlaender GE, Friedlaender LK. Edvard Munch and The...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Disappear by Andrea Reilly with reflection on clinical spaces, inadequacy, and anorexia. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: Disappear by Andrea Reilly: https://www.alphaomegaalpha.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/C3_AUT23.pdf  

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of The Roses by Seth Peterson with reflection on boundaries, aging and decline.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: Peterson S. The Roses. JAMA. 2025;333(16):1461.  https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2832004   Seth Peterson:  Bluesky: @drsethPT X: @sethpeterson.bsky.social 

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of excerpts from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas translated by Lowell Bair with reflection on alternative and complementary care, rosemary and plot devices Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: excerpts from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas translated by Lowell Bair “My son, all I have to give you is fifteen ecus, my...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Forgotten on Sunday by Valerie Perrin translated by Hildegarde Serle with reflection on nursing homes, caregivers, loneliness and dementia.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: “How's it going today, Monsieur Girardot?” "My wife has died." "That was a long time ago, now." "You know, when you'v...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of A Hymn to God the Father by John Donne with reflection on medical errors and confession.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: A Hymn to God the Father by John Donne Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun,          Which was my sin, though it were done before? Wilt thou forgive that sin, through which I run,          And do ru...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Thoughts by Myra Viola Wilds with reflection on psychotherapy, meditation, cognitive behavioral therapy and vision loss.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work:  Thoughts by Myra Viola Wilds    In your travels day by day Are they bright and lofty visions,     Or neglected, gone astray? Matters not how great in fancy,      Or what...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  A review of the highlights from the Fall 2024 edition of Intima Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: Changing the Bag by Paul Shovlin: https://www.theintima.org/changing-the-bag-paul-shovlin   Dear Rescue Worker by Joan Roger: https://www.theintima.org/dear-rescue-worker-joan-roger   Inscribed on a Pill Box by Maya Klauber: https://www.theintima.org/in...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy with reflection on incontinence, caregivers, and existential distress. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Special arrangements were also made for his stools, and this was a torment to him each t...

Send us Fan Mail E45 Long Neglect Has Worn Away by Emily Bronte  Description:  An immersive reading of Long Neglect Has Worn Away by Emily Bronte with reflection on transience and permeance, tuberculosis and facial maladies.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: [Long Neglect Has Worn Away] by Emily Bronte Long neglect has worn away Half the sweet enchanting smile; Time has turned t...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Tanka and Haiku by Sadakichi Hartmann with reflection on tanka, haiku, and aging.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: Tanka and Haiku by Sadakichi Hartmann Tanka IX Were we able to tell  When old age would come our way, We would muffle the bell, Lock the door and go away Let him call some other day Haikai IV Oh, red maple lea...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of A Prayer to the Asvins by Ghosha translated by H. D. Griswold with reflection on physician gods, Gosha, leprosy, praise and gift exchange.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/ Work: A Prayer to the Asvins Ghosha translated by H. D. Griswold Your car, the swiftly-rolling:, circumambient, To be saluted day and night by worshippers, As...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Hope by Joseph Zarconi with reflection on hope, goal concordant care, chemotherapy, and patients with young children.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com References: Zarconi J. Hope. Ann Intern Med. 2024 Apr;177(4):541 https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M23-2289   Feldman DB, Corn BW. Hope and cancer. Curr Opin Psychol. 2023 Fe...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf with reflection on language, health humanities and bipolar disorder. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: Excerpts from On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf Finally, to hinder the description of illness in literature, there is the poverty of the language. English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Sonnet – To Science by Edgar Allen Poe with reflection on sonnets, science, and Greek and Roman mythology.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/   Work: Sonnet—To Science By Edgar Allen Poe Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!    Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart,    Vu...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Open Windows by Sara Teasdale with reflection on mobility, pain, trees and wonder.   Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/ Work: Open Windows by Sara Teasdale Out of the window a sea of green trees Lift their soft boughs like the arms of a dancer, They beckon and call me, "Come out in the sun!" But I cannot answer. I am alon...