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AuscultationAuthor: Auscultation Podcast
Add a bit of joy and perspective to your practice of healthcare with this humanities-inspired podcast that focuses the lens of art and literature to find fresh views on wellness and illness. Christopher Schifeling, a geriatric and palliative care physician and poet, shares immersive readings and viewings of artwork with a dose of humor. Enriching for any and everyone in healthcare: physicians, nurses, therapists, social workers, pharmacists, first responders, patients, etcetera. Language: en-us Genres: Arts, Health & Fitness, Medicine Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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E57 With Child by Genevieve Taggard
Tuesday, 6 January, 2026
Send us a textDescription: An immersive reading of With Child by Genevieve Taggard with reflection on pregnancy, maternal mortality, pace, and isolation. Website:https://anauscultation.wordpress.comWork:With Childby Genevieve Taggard Now I am slow and placid, fond of sun,Like a sleek beast, or a worn one:No slim and languid girl—not gladWith the windy trip I once had,But velvet-footed, musing of my own,Torpid, mellow, stupid as a stone.You cleft me with your beauty’s pulse, and nowYour pulse has taken body. Care not howThe old grace goes, how heavy I am grown,Big with this loneliness, how you alonePonder our love. Touch my feet and feelHow earth tingles, teeming at my heel!Earth’s urge, not mine,—my little death, not hers;And the pure beauty yearns and stirs.It does not heed our ecstacies, it turnsWith secrets of its own, its own concerns,Toward a windy world of its own, toward starkAnd solitary places. In the dark,Defiant even now, it tugs and moansTo be untangled from these mother’s bones.References:Goldenberg RL, McClure EM. Maternal mortality. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Oct;205(4):293-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2011.07.045. Epub 2011 Aug 4. PMID: 22083050; PMCID: PMC3893928.https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/maternal-mortality Hoyert DL. Maternal mortality rates in the United States, 2023. NCHS Health E-Stats. 2025. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.15620/cdc/174577.Qaseem A, Wilt TJ, McLean RM, Forciea MA; Clinical Guidelines Committee of the American College of Physicians; Denberg TD, Barry MJ, Boyd C, Chow RD, Fitterman N, Harris RP, Humphrey LL, Vijan S. Noninvasive Treatments for Acute, Subacute, and Chronic Low Back Pain: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American College of Physicians. Ann Intern Med. 2017 Apr 4;166(7):514-530. doi: 10.7326/M16-2367. Epub 2017 Feb 14. PMID: 28192789.Moyer CA, Rounds J, Hannum JW. A meta-analysis of massage therapy research. Psychol Bull. 2004 Jan;130(1):3-18. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.130.1.3. PMID: 14717648.
