Editorial Issue #1: Conversation March 15th, 2019 March 15th, 2019 Editorial Letter from the Editor | Tracy Granzyk Letter from the Nonfiction Editor | Grace Jasmine Letter from the Fiction Editor | A. M. Larks Letter from the Poetry Editor | Steve Granzyk Special Thanks | Tracy Granzyk
Read MoreEditorial Issue #1: Conversation March 15th, 2019 March 15th, 2019 Special Thanks from Tracy Granzyk To David Mayer for his vision and belief that stories can, and do, connect patients and providers in ways that change healthcare for the better. To Barb and Bob Malizzo, for so willingly sharing your story and your time to make sure other families do not experience the same loss yours has endured. To say that Bob will be missed is one ...
Read MoreInterview Issue #1: Conversation March 15th, 2019 March 15th, 2019 “An Authentic Sense of Self” PSM Talks with Cat Gwynn by Tracy Granzyk at Gwynn is an artist, photographer, mindfulness coach, author, and Triple Negative breast cancer survivor. When I sat down with Cat in the living room of her Los Feliz apartment in Los Angeles for this multi-media interview, it took just five minutes to feel the strength of her spirit. She has an infectious desire to ...
Read MoreInterview Issue #1: Conversation March 15th, 2019 March 15th, 2019 “The Beauty of Practice”: PSM Talks with Chaya Bhuvaneswar by A. M. Larks haya Bhuvaneswar’s words not only burn into your brain—they burrow into your marrow. Her short-story collection White Dancing Elephants is no exception. While the book tackles hard-hitting topics like gang rape, racism, and child abuse, her stories are never focused on a single idea. Each story encompasses the breadth of human emotion, which is why ...
Read MoreEditorial Issue #1: Conversation March 15th, 2019 March 15th, 2019 Letter from the Editor: A Standing Invitation to Join the Conversation by Tracy Granzyk irst, thanks to all who shared their health-related stories for our inaugural issue of Please See Me. We received many excellent submissions from patients, providers, and healthcare consumers around the world. Many submissions came from voices that have not traditionally been heard in the healthcare space supporting the need for a platform like ...
Read MoreArt Issue #1: Conversation March 15th, 2019 March 15th, 2019 Artist’s Statement by Hannah Jeremiah Filter by Hannah Jeremiah arrative emerges from intuitively layered images as I draw my surroundings without a plan. This process unearths meaning previously below my conscious awareness. The combinations of images produce pieces of stories that did not yet have words. A chair falls, layered over lips. The structure becomes a filter over the voice of a consciousness that lies behind dark ...
Read MoreInterview Issue #1: Conversation March 15th, 2019 March 15th, 2019 Interview An Authentic Sense of Self: PSM Talks with Cat Gwynn - Photographer, Artist, and Triple Negative Breast Cancer Survivor The Beauty of Practice: PSM Talks with Chaya Bhuvaneswar - Physician and Creative Writer
Read MoreNonfiction Issue #1: Conversation March 15th, 2019 March 15th, 2019 Forgetting Aiden by Cyndy Cendagorta hen I search for my son in a song, no words say what I would sing for him, if I could sing. No lyrics speak to who he is to me, only the ones I write in my mind when I hear something beautiful and heartbreaking. My son, Aiden, who has intellectual disabilities, is his own song that I had to ...
Read MoreNonfiction Issue #1: Conversation March 15th, 2019 March 15th, 2019 Talking Headaches by Pam Munter have a tumor inside my head. It’s not very big. It sits on the outer part of the brain itself, just to the left of center. It has a rhythmic, tongue-twisting name: meningioma. I don’t know how long it has been in there but perhaps for decades, a permanent resident. When the physician informed me about this, I was not at ...
Read MoreNonfiction Issue #1: Conversation March 15th, 2019 March 15th, 2019 In the World by Caitlin Farrell he Cook County Jail is a massive 96-acre compound nestled on the south side of the city of Chicago, although you wouldn’t know it was there unless you were looking for it. Like most jails, Cook County is embedded into the neighborhood that many of its inmates inhabit. Mexican flags hang over the shops along the street. A Popeyes sits ...
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