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СпутникиРНSpaceXРоскосмосNASAPoetry, through its visceral immediacy and catalyzing of human emotion, has the power to close distances. Many argue that recent technological advancement has created the opposite, a loss of interpersonal connection, but the experience of alienation or simply growing apart is innate to the human condition, sometimes necessarily accompanying personal growth. In fact, developing professional relationships within health care has long grappled with fostering appropriate distance between physicians and patients, who share intimate, health-related details of their lives, or among physician colleagues, who often witness stressful events together but ultimately must confront such burdens alone. The poem “Distance Learning” provides an example of a clinician in training questioning distance, although ironically not the type enforced by the hospital workplace setting. Instead, the speaker remarks on “a distance I chose” from her own family in seeking medical training. Using tender, homespun imagery juxtaposed against her rigorous hospital duties, the realities of her vocation strain against the comforts of sitting around a familiar table, being with caring parents, and experiencing uninterrupted, unabashed closeness with her loved ones. The poem acknowledges that problematic, well-known ethos in medicine that career always takes priority—physicians must eat, drink, and sleep medicine—creating tension between its duties and physicians’ other needs and interests. Yet in a poem that elicits the pains and sacrifices of pursuing medical training, we still find an accessible, paradoxically forgiving space that helps bridge emotional distance when physical closeness seems impossible.