The history of the physician-writer is an ancient one. Medical practice was codified by physician-writers such as Galen, Avicenna, and the Hippocratic school doctors. Their treatises often addressed what we might call the art of medicine, including philosophical and spiritual considerations. Some of these texts were partially written in verse or in elevated diction. Even as medicine became rooted in scientific knowledge, physicians remained intimately involved in the lives of their patients. Today's doctors still work within this intersection of science, art, and human experience. We are privy to—and privileged to be part of—the most intimate and precarious moments of people's lives. Modern physician-poets such as William Carlos Williams and (more recently) Fady Joudah, C. Dale Young, Amit Majmudar, and Jenna Le, continue to open windows into terrains of human existence, whether in the context of medicine or beyond.