An online literary journal that features health-related stories in the form of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and digital media, including photography, podcasts, and short films.

Please See Me is an online literary journal that features health-related stories in the form of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and digital media, including photography, podcasts, and short films. Our mission is to elevate the voices and stories of vulnerable populations, and those who care for them. At the heart of our publication is the cultivation of meaningful patient–provider partnerships in the spirit of wellness. To that end, we publish work written by patients, family members, creatives, caregivers, providers–anyone with a health-related story to tell is welcome to submit.

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General call

When we first explored heroism in Issue 5, we were thinking about the courage we see every day in patients facing devastating diagnoses, in caregivers who give without being asked, in clinicians who show up long after the glamour of their calling has worn away. We understood healthcare professional burnout long before it became a headline. We knew then — and we know now — that many of the people who sustain our healthcare system are still struggling to find wellness within the very system they serve.

For Issue 19, we are returning to this theme with fresh eyes and a wider lens. We want stories that honor heroism — the child with a brain cancer diagnosis who somehow inspires an entire ward; the nurse who stays through the night with a patient whose family is too far away to come; the home caregiver who hasn't slept a full night in three years and does it anyway. But we also want stories about exhaustion, moral injury, disillusionment, grief, and the painful question of what happens when the profession — or the role — you love can no longer love you back.

Heroes

It's the choices we make each day - big and small - that define our life, and we want to hear about your health-related choices that have had a lasting impact on you or those you love.

  What does it mean to you to have choices related to your health and well-being? To have limited choices? 
  How do you respond when you are faced with a hard choice? Sophie's choice? 
  Is there a moment in time you would  like to change that led to the wrong choice? 
  Is there a "Sliding Doors" moment in your life that makes you wonder what your life might be life had you made a different choice?
  As healthcare professionals, you make choices on behalf of your patients every day. You guide patients to make their own difficult or joyful choices. We want to hear about the choices you or your patients have made that have  had particular lasting meaning in your life.

Our PSM Issue #18 theme provides an opportunity to reflect on the health-related choices we make in our lives, as well as what it means to have a choice in our care--the care we seek, the care we don't seek and the reasons why for both. 
These are the stories in all forms--creative nonfiction, short stories, poetry, film, photography and digital art--we are curating for Spring Issue #18.
Be sure to follow all Please See Me general Submission Guidelines, and as always, our theme is a place to start. It's your canvas!

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Highlights

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