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Cardioplegia
1Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon. firas.ghanem@lau.edu.
Abstract:
"Cardioplegia" is a poem situated at the intersection of medicine, mortality, and human attachment. Drawing on the clinical language of cardiac surgery, the poem considers the paradox of deliberately arresting the heart in order to preserve life. Cardioplegia becomes both a physiological intervention and a metaphor for the ways human beings confront vulnerability, loss, and emotional suspension. By placing the technical vocabulary of medicine alongside the symbolic and intimate meanings attributed to the heart, the poem explores the tension between the heart as an organ and the heart as a site of memory, love, and grief. "Cardioplegia" seeks to illuminate how medical language can carry meanings beyond its clinical function and how poetic attention may create space for reflection on the lived and emotional dimensions of medicine.
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