Stories By

Sriram Shamasunder

8 stories on DailyGood

Poem From Haiti

Nobody should die from diseases we know how to treat, but over 50,000 people die daily from them. Two UCSF ...

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Togetherness: a Poem & Wedding Blessing

Exactly a year and a day ago today, doctor-poet Sriram Shamasunder was asked to share a poem to celebrate the ...

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Sounds of Haiti

"There is always humming from somewhere. It is usually low and musical as patients try to distract themselves from ...

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Going Into the Hospital: Covid 19 (Poem)

"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 a Doctor, I Am Looking to Make Common Cause

"As residents, we worked and lived in the hospital so many nights. It felt like home. On one of my days off, in ...

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To Walk in Beauty Once Again

"Fragility sticks to everything alive like the quiet wetness of morning dew
in this global pandemic
as ...

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Letters From a Tibetan Colony

In this moving piece from over a decade ago, Dr. Sriram Shamasunder, shares updates from a month working in a ...

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June Jordan's Legacy of Solidarity & Love

To fulfill a humanities requirement at UC Berkeley, Sriram Shamasunder wandered into, "Poetry for the People," a ...

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