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Elissa Ely

Elissa Ely

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The question that melted me

With this question, we were companions; it was a door she opened for the two of us to walk through together.

04.11.2024 10

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Elissa Ely

The art of the medical exam

The visual and physical exam is no longer valued as the great diagnostic tool.

14.08.2024 20

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The cost of ambition

My supervisor was attending an academic conference — several days, cutting-edge topics — but he had come mostly to hear an especially famous...

01.07.2024 10

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Displaced by war, displaced by tuition

She has been offered a dream with almost no help in bankrolling it.

03.06.2024 20

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The pharmacist and the amaryllis

Public workers are starved for appreciation, and the occasional expansive act won’t do.

18.03.2024 50

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The teacher and the open window

I, for one, want to lead life the way he does — reflectively, with a continual gaze, resiliently. If we paint and paint and paint, and look and look...

03.03.2024 5

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The little chapel near the fish tank

Even the air in the little chapel seems enriched. Lists and schedules become briefly superfluous. They have no place here and need to wait outside on...

02.01.2024 10

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The pages of life keep turning

You start as a young mother smiling at cross-legged children and then, a seeming minute later, you are an older person balancing a pile of books in a...

08.12.2023 10

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