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Mashup Score: 41VQR congratulates the 2023 Winners - 2 month(s) ago
The Emily Clark Balch Prizes and the Staige D. Blackford Prize were created to honor the best writing to appear in the pages of VQR each year. Past recipients include John Berryman, Philip Caputo, Pauline W. Chen, Carolyn Forché, Natasha Trethewey, and Kevin Young. The VQR Prize for Photography was created to recognize the best photo portfolio to appear in our pages. Each prize includes a monetary award of $1,000. Emily Clark Balch Prize for Fiction Ximena Blanco “Lilies for Romina” (Spring/Summer)
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Mashup Score: 18Best Practices - 8 month(s) ago
How doctors across the country—fed up, burned-out, and disillusioned—are trying to reclaim the soul of medicine. This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. On a sweltering weekend in July 2022, in Kansas City, Missouri, more than two hundred doctors gathered at the Sheraton Hotel to explore an alternative health-care delivery model, called direct primary care (DPC), which promised to stem the rising tide of their professional despair. Most of the attendees were generalists—family-medi
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Today, I'm excited to share "Best Practices," my longform reported essay in @VQR about Direct Primary Care. 🔖 https://t.co/582jopU6ln 🎨: María Jesús Contreras 1/8 https://t.co/iTYqRRX97v
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Mashup Score: 4Attending - 3 year(s) ago
The pain was a steel orb, sitting just inside my left hip. It came on suddenly on a bright spring day, and as much as I begged it to blend away, it took up residence in my body, the physical feeling not nearly as disturbing as the torrent of thoughts, the questions of permanence, of entropy, of whether the disorder could be undone.No doctor could explain the feeling, including me. Still, I…
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“’I’m glad you’re back,’ I say, pressing my stethoscope to his skin. With each inhalation, I hear a loud, coarse sound. ‘Thanks for saying that,’ he says, tearful. ‘That’s really cool.’ I savor the moment—a pearl among shipwrecks.” Dr. @ESilvermanMD #MedEd https://t.co/eQx3OG3paB
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Mashup Score: 1Attending - 3 year(s) ago
The pain was a steel orb, sitting just inside my left hip. It came on suddenly on a bright spring day, and as much as I begged it to blend away, it took up residence in my body, the physical feeling not nearly as disturbing as the torrent of thoughts, the questions of permanence, of entropy, of whether the disorder could be undone.No doctor could explain the feeling, including me. Still, I…
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Thanks @VQR for publishing my essay on doctorhood, identity, and burnout. Hope it strikes a chord with some of you ⛈ @gabrieldane @EricTopol @reyes_edits @emilyfmaloney #MedTwitter Link: https://t.co/SW9tYGrjC3 PS: this issue also includes poems from @gumbo_amando ⚡️ https://t.co/2IstbcQsu9 https://t.co/8E0ADssFrk
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Mashup Score: 2Winter 2020 - 3 year(s) ago
Winter 2020 Volume 96, Number 4 The essays in our Winter issue showcase writers displaying a fundamental talent—that of deep, lucid inquiry into widely shared experiences. Julia Cooke…
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Thanks @reyes_edits for including my essay, "Attending," in the Winter 2020 issue of @VQR. More here: https://t.co/YiStVDRsgJ 🎨 PS: This issue also includes poems from physician-writer @gumbo_amando! #medhum https://t.co/RkyqTmS1kF
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Honored to learn that my nonfiction essay "Best Practices" is a recipient of the 2023 Staige D. Blackford Prize for nonfiction at @VQR: https://t.co/JZE5XPbayd If you've never heard of Direct Primary Care, I encourage you to check out the essay: https://t.co/5AhWbRLwOH #medx https://t.co/T1Twl4CwGq