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While watching the 2024 election night results and considering possible health care policies, a pediatrician reflects on his role in engaging in conversations about politics and policy as an advocate for patients.

In this narrative medicine essay, a family planning fellow discusses how undergoing an abortion, the procedure she specializes in performing, has deepened her perception of the concept of the difficult components of choice and helped her understand the difference in providing vs experiencing care.

In this narrative medicine essay, a medical student discusses the challenges of conveying her grandmother’s feelings to her physician while serving as an interpreter for her grandparents’ clinic visits.

In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatrician thwarted a likely fatal cancer after undergoing genetic testing after noticing a pattern in her family that turned out to be caused by a genetic variation.

In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatric oncology fellow who weaves storytelling into her practice to help patients process their illness describes how a young boy’s mother captures his story through photography.

After he learned that his congenital bicuspid aortic valve needed replacement, a urologic oncologist describes, in this narrative medicine essay, the pain and helplessness he felt while recovering from surgery.

In this narrative medicine essay, an internal medicine physician reflects on her intentional and visible efforts to model for young physicians the balance between career and parenthood.

In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatric palliative care physician undergoing in vitro fertilization extends her compassionate solidarity to female physicians who, like her, are anxious to start their families.

In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatrician discusses the ambiguity of diagnoses of patients and settles on honestly admitting when the parameters are unclear with an explanation of the range of possibilities.

In this narrative medicine essay, a gastroenterologist learns of his 34-year-old brother’s stroke in Oslo and struggles to understand how such a young, healthy man could have a stroke while exercising.

In this narrative medicine essay, a neonatologist through the complex forces of intensive care physician, son, and ethicist grapples with the impending loss of his father and ultimately understanding his father’s demand for autonomy in deciding his care.

In this narrative medicine essay, a transplant hepatology fellow whose gestational diabetes progressed to type 1 diabetes finds robust online support groups that have helped her navigate her new reality.

In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatric infectious disease physician relates how he has learned to understand the protective role of code-shifting in his life and how that understanding has aided him in promoting an inclusive environment in academic medicine.

In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatric critical care physician explores the right moment to speak with parents about their child’s life or death outcome, relying on the various elements involved in predicting an iffy endeavor.