Jenna Koblinski

“Pleasantly confused” is how my internal medicine resident described our patient to me. I was on my dermatology rotation and had just arrived at…

Her mother’s silent tears streamed gently down her face as we carefully unwrapped the six-day-old’s soiled bandages. We assessed the infant’s raw and blistered…

It looked like a fish out of water. I have never been fishing, but in movies the fish’s mouth puckers while it gasps for…

  Jenna Koblinski submitted this piece to the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix’s annual Narrative Medicine Program competition open to all first-year medical students….

“Cows.” Not something I have heard often in medicine. Maybe it could be associated with mad cow disease or perhaps a cow stampede? However,…

Rushing to take care of every person in the room, constantly checking fluid levels and carrying trays full of equipment, I started questioning whether…