Issue #12
Diagnosis
December 31, 2022
Cover Image from: Short film, Diagnosis (2002)
Directed, produced, and edited by Alison Marek.
Images used by permission. All rights reserved.
Fiction
Birthday Boy | William Cass
The Swan Floating Serenely | Niamh O’Brien
Putting the Top Down | David Blistein
Finally Dead | Myra Seles
To | Lee Eustace
Film
Diagnosis: Short Film as Medical Memoir | M Tamara Cutler
Poetry
Letter from the Poetry Editor: Diagnosis: Bravely Finding A Path Forward
Magnetic North | Dagne Forrest
Automata, My Apartment (Newly Disabled),
Siege (Chronic Pain) | Rebekah Bartlett
Exam Rooms are Often Windowless,
Grandma’s Letters-Just Another Mortal | Amy Haddad
Clinical | Mary Birnbaum
CVA, Make the Call, Long Hauler | Joe Amaral
Kally, Prepare the Poison, Apheresis | Aria Dominguez
After the Doctor’s Call | Joan Mazza
Surfacing, Blood Journey, Anemia | Deborah Meltvedt
The Thing Is, Indolent | Paul Hostovsky
Compulsions, The Journey, Consumption | Uma Growishankar
Diagnosis: Wrecked, Honda Pilot,
Just Like So Many Others Things | Linda Lamenza
Nonfiction
Harvey Is Inside My Head | Deborah Meltvedt
Obligate Ram Ventilation | Steph Amir
Lighter | Diane D. Gillette
You Don’t Know How It Feels | Scott Martin
A Nightmare Before Christmas: Shared Decisions in the ER | Tyler Jorgensen
Merry Migraines | Erin Darrow
It’s Not the Final Answer | Wendy Kennar
I Was Really Scared Last Night | Karen Buley
A Brief History of My Living Room Couch | Meghan Beaudry
Self-Portrait as a Suicide Attempt | Joanna Acevedo