An Obese Woman Standing
with a Dying Martial Arts Master

Jason Paluzzi

The fat woman slid to her seat’s edge,

To see his heart die…it was cruelty.

Contorting for the proper leverage,

A ruptured plaque blocked off his LAD,

Occluding routes the blood flow circulates,

Killing the cells. Your standard heart attack.

Sweating, grunting, managing the weight,

Three students, doctors, moved themselves to act.

Finally up, and, propped against the wall,

Two watched from a distance; the other one

Went out for a smoke, with nobody at all

At his side, where nothing could be done.

Jason Paluzzi

Year in Medical School: 1st

Place of birth:
Princeton, NJ

College:
The Johns Hopkins University

Major(s) in college:
Music, Biology, Writing

Goals (medical school and beyond): Press a CD and write a book before medical school ends; be a successful surgeon in a warm city when it does.

Personal Philosophy on life and/or medicine: “Don’t play like me, play like you”
-Eric clapton

Favorite quote: You’re still the void I’m always writing to. You don’t write back. But you know who you are. – “As If” by Joseph Harrison