An Emergency Medicine Journal of Scholarship and Stories

Where emergency medicine and the health humanities meet.

A peer-reviewed, open-access health humanities journal exploring what it means to experience, deliver, and bear witness to acute, unscheduled care.

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Call for Papers · Inaugural issue →

Five paths into one journal

Research, non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and visual arts

Each category has its own guidelines and review path. We welcome the opportunity to engage with your work, provided it speaks to at least one of the journal’s four scope pillars.

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◆ Free to read, free to publish

During the journal’s first three years, every published work is free to read and authors pay no submission fee or article-processing charge. Authors choose the Creative Commons terms that govern reuse and retain copyright unless they select CC0.

Every piece we publish speaks to one of four pillars

Bearing Witness

What does it feel like to experience, deliver, or witness acute, unscheduled care?

The Architecture of Care

How do inequities, structural barriers, or systemic failures shape unscheduled care?

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The Identity Continuum

How is professional identity forged, and how must it transform amid rapid change?

Humanities in Practice

How can the health humanities shape clinicians across training—and influence patient outcomes?

Call for Papers · Inaugural issue

Your work belongs here.

We welcome empirical research, non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and visual work that explores the world of acute, unscheduled care.

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