Anne Merritt is a poet, physician, and medical humanities scholar. She practiced medicine for a decade in New Haven, which serves as the focal point for this collection. Her poetry has received many honors, including the Marguerite Rush Lerner Award from Yale University. She lives with her husband and daughter in California, where she is a Clinical Instructor in Emergency Medicine at Stanford University.
Light through Marble Veins
Anne Merritt, MD Emergency medicine offers a window into people’s lives at some of their most vulnerable moments. As I rush from the trauma bay to a resuscitation to an overflowing waiting room, I am no longer acutely aware of this. The raw…