Cao, Janie2018-07-312018-07-312018https://hdl.handle.net/2152.5/5585PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: This poem was inspired by a patient I saw on the neurology stroke service when I was a third-year medical student. Her clinical course made me think about death as a process rather than a state of being. The "dot" symbolizes both the lesion in her brain that grew over time and a state of seeming finality.enOpen Verse PoetryOther