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Hands That Heal
October 2025 | Vol. 69, No. 3
Written by Jina Park, PCOM OMS-II
Once,
a breath caught in my chest,
pain shooting between my ribs–
My classmate found a tender point,
Held it still through counterstrain–
Until the tension softened,
And my breath eased.
Later,
stress tightly clenched my jaw,
My TMJ grinding through restless nights–
I flipped through my textbook,
And tried a Muscle Energy Technique learned in lab–
Fingers guiding the hinge and release along my TMJ.
The ache softened,
Like a locked door that opened.
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Look what I found
October 2025 | Vol. 69, No. 3
Written by Richard Donze, DO, MPH
Ron stopped by after cleaning
out his OR locker he’d gone
to 3 days a week 2 years ago
but his last case was today
“Look what I found” an older
logo’ed set of scrubs a dog-
eared Arnold Henry’s Extensile
Exposure from the orthopod’s
canon a tableside photo of his
first total joint in “my Dave
suit” the now stale reference
to the time-traveling whoosh-
breathing HAL-quieting pro-
tagonist’s outfit in 2001:A
Space Odyssey but at the 1972
Grant’s Atlas I twinned it with
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Code 99204
June 2025 | Vol. 69, No. 2
Written by Richard Donze, DO, MPH
doc retired office referred me
30 years we got older together
he was done hated patient-talk
over computers then with virus
it was all computer couldn't get
it to work despite kids' help so
we did phone once told him he
could tell tele-health go to hell-
a-health he laughed what? No
never got it stayed in kids said
why take a chance got groc’ries
delivered only went out to get
the shot at church then back in-
side this is first time seeing any
doctor in four years haven't had
to thank God yeah sorry mask al-
ways slips off nose when talking
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