- Bruce Campbell MD
- Dec 30, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: 23 hours ago
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My short story, "Old Scrubs," is included in the upcoming anthology, Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine. This "best of" collection includes over sixty selections of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poems curated from the first ten years of the online literary journal, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine.
I have seen the book and it is terrific! Selected authors include medical students, physicians, nurses, patients, and caregivers. The writing is crisp, heartfelt, and surprising. This is an affordable, unique book of creative, insightful work that would make a wonderful gift for the students and young healthcare workers in your life. You will love it, as well.
The collection has received warm editorial reviews (see some excerpts below). Publishers Weekly is including Where It Hurts in its Spring 2026 Preview.
Pre-orders will be shipped around the time the book is released on March 24, 2026.
Where it Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine is being published by The Experiment Publishing in New York City.
Thanks for considering supporting Intima by ordering the book!
Selected reviews:
“I was riveted and moved by this collection.”
—Wally Lamb, author of She's Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True, and The River Is Waiting
"A reminder of why medicine is so much more than service.”
—Thomas McGuane, author of A Wooded Shore and The Longest Silence
"This book will continue to echo long after you finish it.”
—Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle and Comfort: A Journey Through Grief
“Doctors and nurses are people, too...[T]his collection offers readers grand works of literature in miniature. Each piece is...a window into the soul of a caregiver. [It] belongs on every healer’s nightstand.”
—Jacob M. Appel, MD, author of Who Says You’re Dead?
“The writings in this collection reveal the emotional core of medicine—tender, raw, and deeply human.”
—Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, author of What Doctors Feel and editor-in-chief of Bellevue Literary Review
“Where it Hurts masterfully spotlights the...front lines of healthcare in the United States...[to] offer a window into the messy, poignant, and meaningful facets of the human condition.”
—Erica C. Kaye, MD, oncologist at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
“The nature of health and illness and the intimacies of our bodily experience are...profoundly universal...This is a book for clinicians, educators, and anyone drawn to ponder this enterprise of living in our beautiful, perfectly imperfect bodies.”
—Deepu Gowda, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Dean for Medical Education, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
“The voices in this collection—wise, tender, funny, and vulnerable—pierce right to the heart of medicine.”
—Jay Baruch, MD, author of Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey through Creativity and Constraints in the ER
"Where it Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine" - Book preorder available
