Liana Meffert
Physician. Writer. Poet.
About
Dr. Liana Meffert holds a medical degree from University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine with distinction in health and humanities. She currently practices emergency medicine in Wisconsin.
Her work surveys the intersectionality of medicine, poetry, and personal narrative.
New & Upcoming
Exposition Review
X-R-A-Y
The Maine Review
Essays
Peatsmoke Journal
How Could You Do a Thing Like That
The Lancet
The things we carry
Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine
Death Is Usually an Easy Diagnosis
U.S. News & World Report
Applying to Med School After Your Third Year of College
Robert D. Sparks Writing Contest
Metaphors in Medicine: The Body Speaks
Medscape
What It’s Like as a Resident Taking the Night Watch
Starting Intern Year: A Summer Like Never Before
What Are Your Weaknesses?
What Your Personal Statement Doesn’t Say About You
How to (Not) Say Goodbye
TV Doctors: I’d Like to Have a Word With You
What We Get Wrong About Match Day
How Good Are Your Coping Skills?
Working in Healthcare and Struggling to Be Healthy: Why Medical Providers Should Lead by Example
Why I Write (and Why You Should, Too)
What Benefits Arise From Early Failure
Poetry
SWIMM
This Summer We Are All Siphoning Love Through Biodegradable Straws
South Florida Poetry Journal (SoFloPoJo)
How to Save a Life
Ars Medica
Wednesday Night
Academic EM Journal
ER Seasons
Irvin David Yalom, M.D. Literary Award
What You See Here, Stays Here.
Carol A. Bowman Awards
I Am the Magician’s Girl Who Does Not Flinch
Vietnam Surgeon
August & Everything After
Death Pronouncement
JAMA
Midwife
The F. Sean Hodge Prize for Poetry in Medicine
An Invitation to the ER
Science
Ortho EM Pearls
Doggone It!
All Stressed Out: A Runner’s Story
Medscape Case Challenges
A 12-Year-Old With Urinary Retention Who Can’t Grasp Objects
A Sexually Active 29-Year-Old Man With a Weak Urine Stream
Anxiety.org
Studies show friendship can improve mental health
Emory Neuroethics Blog
23andMe: The Ethics of Genetic Testing for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Sonoma Medicine Journal
To Whom Much is Given…
Media & Mentions
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