Auscultation

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of two poems, ‘Suicide’s Note’ and ‘Sick Room,’ by  Langston Hughes with reflection on suicide, locations of illness and the personification of death. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/   Work: Suicide’s Note By Langston Hughes The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. Sick Room By Langston Hughes How quiet It is in this s...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of excerpts from Arabian Nights attributed to Scheherazade with translation by Edward William Lane with reflection on leprosy, the ideal clinician and cutaneous treatments. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/   Work: The Story of King Yoonan and the Sage Dooban from The Thousand and One Nights attributed to Scheherazade with translatio...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Spring and All Poem XVI by William Carlos Williams with reflection on signs of illness, jaundice, liver failure, onomatopoeia and poetic apostrophe.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/   Work: Spring and All, Poem XVI By William Carlos Williams O tongue licking the sore on her netherlip O toppled belly O passionate cotton stuck wit...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of A Field of Trilliums by Lori-Anne Noyahr first published in Ars Medica in 2023 with reflection on brain death, anesthesia, liminality and sounds.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/ Work: Noyahr, L.-A. (2023). A Field of Trilliums. Ars Medica, 17(2), 3 pp. Retrieved from https://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/2131   R...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Sippokni Sia by Winnie Lewis Gravitt with reflection on the Choctaw Indian Tribe, code switching, aging and the grandmother effect. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/   Work: Sippokni Sia Winnie Lewis Gravitt I am old, Sippokni sia. Before my eyes run many years, Like panting runners in a race. Like a weary runner, the years lag; E...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of King Lear by William Shakespeare with reflection on dementia, storms and caregivers.   Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/   Work: King Lear by William Shakespeare  Act 3 Scene 1 lines 1-20 KENT  Who’s there, besides foul weather? GENTLEMAN One minded like the weather, most unquietly. KENT  I know you. Where’s the King? GENTLEMAN  C...

Send us Fan Mail An immersive reading of excerpts from Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag with reflection on cancer, tuberculosis, metaphors and myths.  References: Illness as Metaphor:  https://www.tatteredcover.com/book/9780312420130   NB: Tattered Cover is a local Denver bookstore  Curran J. Illness as Metaphor; AIDS and its Metaphors. BMJ. 2007 Sep 8;335(7618):517. Clow B. Who's afraid o...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive viewing of Calavera Catrina by Jose Guadalupe Posada with reflection on skeletons, Halloween and the Day of the Dead.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/   Work:   https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/47687 References: Miller ME Taube KA. The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya : An Illustrated Dictionary of Mesoamerican Reli...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Sassafras Tea by Effie Lee Newsome with reflection on tea rituals, herbal remedies, the good and hindsight.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/   Work: Sassafras Tea By Effie Lee Newsome The sass’fras tea is red and clear  In my white china cup,  So pretty I keep peeping in  Before I drink it up. I stir it with a silver spoon,  And...

Send us Fan Mail Description: An immersive reading of Gitanjali 8 by Rabindranath Tagore with reflection on healthful dust, allergies, shared decision making, white coats and scrubs.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/   Work: Gitanjali 8 by Rabindranath Tagore The child who is decked with prince’s robes and who has jewelled chains round his neck loses all pleasure in his play; his dre...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of an excerpt from Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott with reflection on symptoms and treatments for the common cold and the clinician patient relationship.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/   Work:  excerpt from Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott   Two nights ago I showed up to teach my class with a raw chest and a raging sore throat, that kind...

Send us Fan Mail Description: An immersive reading of an untitled poem by King Nezahualcoyotl translated by Daniel Brinton with reflection on Nahuatl poetry, memento mori, and flowers. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/     Work:  Excerpts from an untitled poem by King Nezahualcoyotl translated by Daniel Brinton 1. The fleeting pomps of the world are like the green willow trees, which,...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Alcestis by Rebekka DePew with reflection on resuscitation, life after death, and work-home balance. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/   Work: Alcestis  by Rebekka DePew Those who die and then return are often silent which has never once been attributed to having seen god sometimes when I come back I do not speak sometimes when I...

Send us Fan Mail Description: An immersive reading of excerpts from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson with reflection on alcohol withdrawal, bargaining and grey. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/   Work: excerpts from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson  But he broke in cursing the doctor, in a feeble voice but heartily. “Doctors is all swabs,” he said; “and that doctor...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of The Drunkard’s Child by Francis Ellen Watkins Harper with reflection on alcohol use disorder, repression, and change.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/   Work:  The Drunkard’s Child by Francis Ellen Watkins Harper He stood beside his dying child, With a dim and bloodshot eye; They'd won him from the haunts of vice To see his...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of excerpts from Death’s End by Cixin Liu translated by Ken Liu with reflection on wording, healthcare decision making, family and finances.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/   Work: excerpts from Death’s End by Cixin Liu translated by Ken Liu A fit of coughing forced him to put down the newspaper and try to get some sleep. The next...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu with reflection on small pox, appearances and responding to illness. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/   Work: Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ' How am I chang'd ! alas ! how am I grown ' A frightful spectre, to m...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of excerpts from Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats with reflection on tuberculosis and the good death.  Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/   Work: Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains          My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains          One m...

Send us Fan Mail Description: An immersive reading of The Pool by HD with reflection on the clinical encounter, pregnancy, resuscitation, viruses and psychotherapy. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/ Work: The Pool By H.D. Are you alive? I touch you. You quiver like a sea-fish. I cover you with my net. What are you—banded one? References: The Pool: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poet...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of Sprin’ Fevah by Raymond Dandridge with reflection on spring fever, disability and polio. Work Sprin’ Fevah  Dar’s a lazy, sortah hazy    Feelin’ grips me, thoo an’ thoo; An’ I feels lak doin’ less dan enythin’;    Dough de saw is sharp an’ greasy, Dough de task et han’ is easy,    An’ de day am fair an’ breezy, Dar’s a thief dat steals embitio...

Send us Fan Mail Description: An immersive reading of Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole with reflection on cholera, clinicians, then and now. Excerpts: I went down to see the corpse. A single glance at the poor fellow showed me the terrible truth. The distressed face, sunken eyes, cramped limbs, and discoloured shrivelled skin were all symptoms which I had been fam...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of ‘When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer’ by Walt Whitman with reflection on ways of seeing and the art and science of medicine.  Work:  When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer by Walt Whitman  When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide,...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive viewing of The Broken Column by Frida Kahlo reflection on serious illness, chronic pain, medical gaze and resilience.   Artwork: The Broken Column: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broken_Column   References: Herrera, Hayden. Frida Kahlo: The Paintings. Harper Perennial. 2002. Kahlo, Frida. The Diary of Frida Kahlo: an Intimate Self-Portrait. Abrams. 20...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading ‘O could my wandering breeze-pinioned mind’ by Henry Derozio with reflection on anxiety and therapy Poem: O! could my wandering, breeze-pinioned mind   True brotherhood in earthborn spirit find.   One that might ever on unflagging wings   Companion me in my imaginings,   One that from earth could take its earthliness.   And robe it with the mind’...

Send us Fan Mail Description:  An immersive reading of excerpts from ‘Aurora Leigh’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning with reflection on the benefits of illness, social determinants of health and discharging people experiencing homelessness.  Work She stirred;—the place seemed new and strange as death. The white strait bed, with others strait and white, Like graves dug side by side, at measured length...