Fam Med. 2018;50(9):708-708.
DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2018.491277
Besitos.
Each cheek.
The visit is over.
There’s a pause, a second too long.
The patient gestures
silently
that her boyfriend is hiding in the bedroom.
He has a
deportation order.
It was her
fear
that I had been trying
to diagnose.
I am silenced by
tears filling our eyes. I
reach out,
emptied now.
This poem was awarded first place in the 2018 STFM Annual Poetry and Prose Contest in the 55-word story category.
Sarah E. Stumbar, MD, MPH
Affiliations: Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL.
Sarah E. Stumbar, MD, MPH
Correspondence: Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, AHC2-585, Miami, FL 33199. 607-592-9587. Fax: 305-348-1495.
Email: sstumbar@fiu.edu
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