Hi, Healthy Matters friends!
I have been steadily moving toward more writing in my career and specifically I’ve been working in an area called “narrative non-fiction.” My writings are mostly based on medicine, health and wellness. Big surprise there – sort of like what I do on this blog. I hope to collect them into a book at some point if I get any good at it.
A venue for publishing narrative non-fiction in the medical field is an online journal called Intima and I had an essay posted there in April. It was called “Don’t worry, at least we will die together!” and it was about my experience with medical students in Jerusalem. If you missed it, you can access the piece in this blog post below.
The editors encourage writers to interact with other writers on the site, and so I wrote a very short post in response to an essay by Margot Hedlin, a newly minted doctor whom I have never met. Her essay was called, “There’s a limit to your love” and it was really thought-provoking. She’s a terrific writer and she masterfully got me thinking about the mundane and the not-so-mundane parts of medicine.
My response to Dr. Hedlin’s piece has now been published in Intima. It is called “Finding the ordinary among the extraordinary.” It has my musings about the need to sometimes find normalcy even in utterly abnormal situations. Like medicine.
I encourage you to read Dr. Hedlin’s piece first in the “Field Notes” section, then my short response in the “Crossroads” section. Maybe as a trio these pieces will pull together some themes that resonate with you.
Here are quick links to these three pieces:
- “Don’t worry, at least we will die together!” by David Hilden.
- “There’s a limit to your love” by Margot Hedlin.
- “Finding the ordinary among the extraordinary” by David Hilden.
I’d love to foster dialogue, so please feel free to share these pieces on Facebook, e-mail, Twitter, or wherever you spend your social media time. Or simply share this MyHealthyMatters blog post and let people do their own clicking! (Buttons to share are at the top and bottom of every post I do).
And the editors at Intima encourage a wider conversation, so maybe you could leave a comment on the site with your reaction to any of these pieces.
For the main Intima site, click the logo here:
Happy reading and happy contemplation!
David
