Avoid common mistakes on your manuscript.
Not long ago, you tell me,
you willed your untrained eyes
to see the pixelated puzzle, green circles
marking femur, bladder, heart. And now,
after the measuring and weighing,
she’s sitting on a playmat, leafing
through a picture book, but really
looking at you looking at a chart, redrawing
the softness of her arms.
Back home, she rushes
to the bedroom mirror, peeling back
her sleeve, bringing thumb and index finger
to the callipers’ cold touch.
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Eli, K. Learning to See. J GEN INTERN MED 39, 498 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-023-08509-5
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