Skip to content
publishing personal accounts of illness and healing, fostering the humanistic practice of medicine, encouraging health care advocacy
Subscribe
Energize
OR
Stories
More Voices
All Themes
Latest Voices
FAQs
2023
Finding Balance
Suicide
Me, Too
2022
Connections
Emergencies
Surgery
Watching the Clock
Coping
Abortion: Then and Now
Gun Violence
Sexism
Accidents
Courage
Listening
Omicron
2021
Eating
Gratitude
Code Red: Our Changing Climate
Unvaccinated
Smoking
Exercise
Cancer
Being in the Minority
Behind Closed Doors
Silver Linings
Healing
The Vaccine
2020
Endings and Beginnings
Choosing
Waiting
Fatigue
Uncertainty
Speaking Up
Racism
COVID-19, Chapter 2
COVID-19
Contagion
Aging
Turning Over a New Leaf
2019
My Aching Back
Drinking
How Can I Help?
Showing Vulnerability
Making Assumptions
LGBTQ+
Abortion
Parenting
Not Knowing
Telling the Truth
Holding On
A Fresh Start
2018
Letting Go
Persevering
Pretending
Animals
Feeling Anxious
Addicted
Prostate Blues
Worry
Reflections as Pulse Turns 10
Guns
Sleep
Paperwork
2017
Holidays
The Phone Call
In Pain
Tough Choices
Afraid
Health Care on the Line
Miracles
Stress and Burnout
Crying
Across Borders and Cultures
Health Insurance
Getting the News
2016
Hope
The Middle of the Night
Prayer
Naked
Race
Mistakes
Hands
The Waiting Room
New Voices
Poems
Haiku
All Haiku
Haiku Slideshow
Visuals
All Visuals
Visual Slideshow
Encounters
About
What is Pulse?
The Story of Pulse
The Story of Pulse II
Staff
Board of Directors
Advisory Group
Friends and Partners
Contact us
Submit
Submission Guidelines
2023 Writing Contest
Story Submissions
More Voices Submissions
New Voices Submissions
Visual Submissions
Menu
Stories
More Voices
All Themes
Latest Voices
FAQs
2023
Finding Balance
Suicide
Me, Too
2022
Connections
Emergencies
Surgery
Watching the Clock
Coping
Abortion: Then and Now
Gun Violence
Sexism
Accidents
Courage
Listening
Omicron
2021
Eating
Gratitude
Code Red: Our Changing Climate
Unvaccinated
Smoking
Exercise
Cancer
Being in the Minority
Behind Closed Doors
Silver Linings
Healing
The Vaccine
2020
Endings and Beginnings
Choosing
Waiting
Fatigue
Uncertainty
Speaking Up
Racism
COVID-19, Chapter 2
COVID-19
Contagion
Aging
Turning Over a New Leaf
2019
My Aching Back
Drinking
How Can I Help?
Showing Vulnerability
Making Assumptions
LGBTQ+
Abortion
Parenting
Not Knowing
Telling the Truth
Holding On
A Fresh Start
2018
Letting Go
Persevering
Pretending
Animals
Feeling Anxious
Addicted
Prostate Blues
Worry
Reflections as Pulse Turns 10
Guns
Sleep
Paperwork
2017
Holidays
The Phone Call
In Pain
Tough Choices
Afraid
Health Care on the Line
Miracles
Stress and Burnout
Crying
Across Borders and Cultures
Health Insurance
Getting the News
2016
Hope
The Middle of the Night
Prayer
Naked
Race
Mistakes
Hands
The Waiting Room
New Voices
Poems
Haiku
All Haiku
Haiku Slideshow
Visuals
All Visuals
Visual Slideshow
Encounters
About
What is Pulse?
The Story of Pulse
The Story of Pulse II
Staff
Board of Directors
Advisory Group
Friends and Partners
Contact us
Submit
Submission Guidelines
2023 Writing Contest
Story Submissions
More Voices Submissions
New Voices Submissions
Visual Submissions
Facebook-f
Twitter
Instagram
publishing personal accounts of illness and healing, fostering the humanistic practice of medicine, encouraging health care advocacy
Subscribe
Energize
OR
Stories
More Voices
All Themes
Latest Voices
FAQs
2023
Finding Balance
Suicide
Me, Too
2022
Connections
Emergencies
Surgery
Watching the Clock
Coping
Abortion: Then and Now
Gun Violence
Sexism
Accidents
Courage
Listening
Omicron
2021
Eating
Gratitude
Code Red: Our Changing Climate
Unvaccinated
Smoking
Exercise
Cancer
Being in the Minority
Behind Closed Doors
Silver Linings
Healing
The Vaccine
2020
Endings and Beginnings
Choosing
Waiting
Fatigue
Uncertainty
Speaking Up
Racism
COVID-19, Chapter 2
COVID-19
Contagion
Aging
Turning Over a New Leaf
2019
My Aching Back
Drinking
How Can I Help?
Showing Vulnerability
Making Assumptions
LGBTQ+
Abortion
Parenting
Not Knowing
Telling the Truth
Holding On
A Fresh Start
2018
Letting Go
Persevering
Pretending
Animals
Feeling Anxious
Addicted
Prostate Blues
Worry
Reflections as Pulse Turns 10
Guns
Sleep
Paperwork
2017
Holidays
The Phone Call
In Pain
Tough Choices
Afraid
Health Care on the Line
Miracles
Stress and Burnout
Crying
Across Borders and Cultures
Health Insurance
Getting the News
2016
Hope
The Middle of the Night
Prayer
Naked
Race
Mistakes
Hands
The Waiting Room
New Voices
Poems
Haiku
All Haiku
Haiku Slideshow
Visuals
All Visuals
Visual Slideshow
Encounters
About
What is Pulse?
The Story of Pulse
The Story of Pulse II
Staff
Board of Directors
Advisory Group
Friends and Partners
Contact us
Submit
Submission Guidelines
2023 Writing Contest
Story Submissions
More Voices Submissions
New Voices Submissions
Visual Submissions
Menu
Stories
More Voices
All Themes
Latest Voices
FAQs
2023
Finding Balance
Suicide
Me, Too
2022
Connections
Emergencies
Surgery
Watching the Clock
Coping
Abortion: Then and Now
Gun Violence
Sexism
Accidents
Courage
Listening
Omicron
2021
Eating
Gratitude
Code Red: Our Changing Climate
Unvaccinated
Smoking
Exercise
Cancer
Being in the Minority
Behind Closed Doors
Silver Linings
Healing
The Vaccine
2020
Endings and Beginnings
Choosing
Waiting
Fatigue
Uncertainty
Speaking Up
Racism
COVID-19, Chapter 2
COVID-19
Contagion
Aging
Turning Over a New Leaf
2019
My Aching Back
Drinking
How Can I Help?
Showing Vulnerability
Making Assumptions
LGBTQ+
Abortion
Parenting
Not Knowing
Telling the Truth
Holding On
A Fresh Start
2018
Letting Go
Persevering
Pretending
Animals
Feeling Anxious
Addicted
Prostate Blues
Worry
Reflections as Pulse Turns 10
Guns
Sleep
Paperwork
2017
Holidays
The Phone Call
In Pain
Tough Choices
Afraid
Health Care on the Line
Miracles
Stress and Burnout
Crying
Across Borders and Cultures
Health Insurance
Getting the News
2016
Hope
The Middle of the Night
Prayer
Naked
Race
Mistakes
Hands
The Waiting Room
New Voices
Poems
Haiku
All Haiku
Haiku Slideshow
Visuals
All Visuals
Visual Slideshow
Encounters
About
What is Pulse?
The Story of Pulse
The Story of Pulse II
Staff
Board of Directors
Advisory Group
Friends and Partners
Contact us
Submit
Submission Guidelines
2023 Writing Contest
Story Submissions
More Voices Submissions
New Voices Submissions
Visual Submissions
Search
Close
Facebook-f
Twitter
Instagram
Anne Dowling
perfect May day
Leave a Comment
/
Haiku
/ By
Anne Dowling
Scroll to Top
Call for Entries
Pulse Writing Contest
"On Being Different"
Learn More
