Consilience, you killed it fam. ill hook you up with a increase your stat... (link to my website is in my background picture)

The Science
This poem reflects a moment as a medical student, interviewing a patient in the hospital about his sexual history, in order to determine his risk factors for hepatitis. Medical professionalism paradigms historically have dictated that doctors should be objective third parties, entirely devoid of their own identities and experiences in interactions with patients; for me, that means not disclosing my trans and queer identities. When I made the decision to reveal that I, too, was queer to that patient in that moment, I ‘failed; to meet the expectations for me as a medical provider. Yet, that ‘failure’ enabled me to help the patient feel safe bringing his whole self into his medical treatment.
The Poet
Teddy G. Goetz (he/him or they/them) is an overly enthusiastic medical student, writer, photographer, biker, runner, and research dork, with a penchant for cooking without recipes and referencing Audre Lorde, Donna Haraway, and Buffy. His goal (as both an artist and a doctor-in-training) is to help people feel seen. His prior training includes an MS in transgender hormone therapy and BS in biochemistry and gender studies, focusing on interdisciplinary scientific research informed by individual embodied experiences. More of his recent poetry and photography publications can be found at teddygoetz.com.

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This poem is inspired by recent research, which suggests that the magnetic 'sixth' sense that some animals possess is likely to come from bacteria.

Symbiotic Senses

Welcome to Consilience
the online poetry journal exploring the spaces where science and art meet. Each issue of Consilience features poems about science all linked by a common theme, written by poets of all backgrounds. At Consilience, we aim to publish all the submissions that we receive and to make both the poetry and the science accessible to all audiences. Here, we feature audio recordings of poems or short pieces by authors who published in Consilience. For more information about the journal, team and how to submit a poem, visit our website: https://www.consilience-journal.com/

Audio poems produced by Zed Sehyr @Consilience Journal

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