Home
Sharing personal experiences of giving and receiving health care
A premier narrative medicine and medical humanities resource
Sharing personal experiences of
giving and receiving health care
A premier narrative medicine
& medical humanities resource
Stories
More Voices
Every month readers tell their stories — in 40 to 400 words — on a different healthcare theme.
Guts
April 2026
Motor Vehicle Accidents
March 2026
Longing
February 2026
New Voices
Stories by those whose faces and perspectives are underrepresented in media and in the health professions.
Join the 10,000+ who receive Pulse weekly
Sign up to get Pulse delivered to your inbox every Friday or energize your subscription with a tax-deductible donation.
Poems
Haiku
- Colette Kern
- 20 March 2026
home care
- Susan B. Auld
- 06 March 2026
visiting memory care
- Jessica Allyson
- 20 February 2026
the ultrasound gel
- LeRoy Gorman
- 06 February 2026
death watch
- Tonya Saliba
- 23 January 2026
insurance card, please
- Nan Bagwell Payne
- 09 January 2026
in the waiting room
Visuals
- Frances Milat
- 27 March 2026
Transitions
- Pris Campbell
- 13 March 2026
Searching Uselessly for Food
- Zelda Blair
- 27 February 2026
Supply Closet Series
- Anisa
- 13 February 2026
The First Time I Learned
- Emma Browning
- 30 January 2026
Etherized Pietà
- Sara Kohrt
- 16 January 2026