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Nobody should die from diseases we know how to treat, but over 50,000 people die daily from them. Two UCSF ...
Read MoreExactly a year and a day ago today, doctor-poet Sriram Shamasunder was asked to share a poem to celebrate the ...
Read More"There is always humming from somewhere. It is usually low and musical as patients try to distract themselves from ...
Read More"When I walk out the door these days
For a shift in the hospital
Two small people cry at the door
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"As residents, we worked and lived in the hospital so many nights. It felt like home. On one of my days off, in ...
Read More"Fragility sticks to everything alive like the quiet wetness of morning dew
in this global pandemic
as ...
In this moving piece from over a decade ago, Dr. Sriram Shamasunder, shares updates from a month working in a ...
Read MoreTo fulfill a humanities requirement at UC Berkeley, Sriram Shamasunder wandered into, "Poetry for the People," a ...
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