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Publications worked on at the 2025 retreat:

  • Mensinger, M.E. (2025) Scrawling. J GEN INTERN MED, Nov 14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-025-10003-z
    • “’Can you prep a note for __?” asks the rounding nurse. “He’s circling the drain.’

      I turn to the glowing pixels of my laptop. My fingers compress the keys as I begin the death summary.”

  • Olson, M. E. (2025). Circles. Academic Pediatrics, 25(8), Article 103117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2025.103117
    • Walking out the back door, headlines replay loudly in my mind. The morning’s chill startles me back into the present and for a moment, I’m able to find some reassurance in the sunrise.”
  • Trappey, B. E. (2025). Winds of Change. JAMA, 334(2), 119-120. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2025.7912
    • In this narrative essay, a hospitalist describes the experience of visiting the parents of a 3-month-old patient discharged to hospice.