Apr 6, 2026
We do not always rage against the dying of the light. Sometimes, we allow the light to fade gently, with grace, in the presence of love.
Nezienwa Ezenwa reflects on a patient who demonstrated that medicine is not just about defying death. It is about honoring life.
This essay placed first in the 2025 Hope Babette...
Apr 3, 2026
Something shifted after that conversation. It wasn’t a dramatic overnight change, but it was there—the slightest flicker of fight in him again. He started pushing himself a little more, engaging in physical therapy instead of just going through the motions. He cracked a joke with the nurses.
Roz Agheli reflects on...
Mar 10, 2026
Discussing Academic Medicine’s and MedEdPORTAL’s new policy guiding the use of AI tools in the peer review process are editors-in-chief Laura Roberts, MD, MA, and Lauren Maggio, PhD, MS(LIS), Academic Medicine associate editor Krisztina Fischer, MD, PhD, MMSc, and AAMC director of journals Mary Beth DeVilbiss. They...
Feb 23, 2026
Mrs. Jones didn’t need a cure. She needed a witness to her grief—someone to sit with her in the silence, to validate the love she had for her husband and the life they built. She needed to be heard.
Christine Dianne Nepomuceno reflects on a patient who taught her that healing is not always about medicine....
Feb 9, 2026
Dora taught me that care is not just found in grand gestures or lifesaving procedures. It is in the quiet moments when someone chooses to listen, to sit beside another in their suffering, and to act when no one else will.
Maria Jose Gomez reflects on a patient who taught her that compassion does not require a title, a...