Guides: Good Sentences: Pediatric Advocacy Clinic

Literary Sentences

You Owe Me
By Miah Arnold, Michigan Quarterly Review (Winter 2011)
The Black Eye of the Month Club
By Sherman Alexie, in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007)
Strong Horse Tea
By Alice Walker, in In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973)
The Aquarium
By Alexander Hemon, The Book of My Lives, pp. 185-212 (2013)
Thin Places
By Jordan Kisner, in n+1, Issue 22 (Spring 2015)
The Doctor
By Anton Chekhov (1887)

Children's Hospital, Emergency Room
By Gregory Djanikian, in Good Poems For Hard Times, edited by Garrison Keillor (2005)
Epilepsy, Petit Mal
By Lisel Mueller, in Alive Together: New and Selected Poems (1996)
TV Room at the Children's Hospice
By Michael Ryan, in New and Selected Poems (2004)
Night Thoughts Over A Sick Child
By Philip Levine, available from Poem Hunter

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Call Number: DEI Collection RA418.5.T73 F33 1997
Publication Date: 1997
Complications by Atul Gawande
Call Number: Writing Reserve RD27.35.G39 A3 2002
Publication Date: 2002

Swamp Nurse
By Katherine Boo, The New Yorker (February 6, 2006)
A Baffling Illness
By Mark Johnson & Kathleen Gallagher, Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel (December 18, 2010)
The Power of Will
from The Boston Globe
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation (Excerpt)
By Dan Fagin, Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation (2013)
Losing Conner's Mind: The Race to Save a Child From a Genetic Death Sentence
By Amitha Kalaichandran, The Atavist Magazine (December 2017)
Saving Baby Boy Green: Born at a Barely Viable 24 Weeks, His Life Began as a Battle for Survival. His Future is a Test for How Far Neonatal Medicine Has Come.
By Eva Holland, Wired (March 27, 2018).
Grieving the Future I Imagined for My Daughter
By Julie Kim, The Atlantic (April 22, 2019)

Brief for Petitioners
Kamala Harris, Counsel for Petitioners in Nos. 09-958, 09-1158, and 10-283 in the Supreme Court of the United States (2011)
Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae Supporting the Petitioners
Neal Kumar Katyal, Counsel of Record in Nos. 09-958, 09-1158, and 10-283 in the Supreme Court of the United States (2011)
Brief of Members of Congress as Amici Curiea in Support of Respondents
Paul M. Smith, Counsel of Record in Nos. 09-958, 09-1158, and 10-283 in the Supreme Court of the United States (2011)
Brief of Various Medical Associations as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents
Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, Counsel of Record in Nos. 09-958, 09-1158, and 10-283 in the Supreme Court of the United States (2011)