Katelyn Mohrbacher

Resident

Katelyn Mohrbacher is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Minnesota Duluth-Twin Cities; she will be starting residency at the Duluth Family Medicine Residency Program this June. She is also an artist. She and her husband live on an organic farm with an eighty-two-year-old friend, a stray cat and two draft horses. Katelyn has written both academically (in Minnesota Medicine) and creatively (essays, poems and lyrics). "I write as a way to reflect, understand and appreciate, and to restore balance in my life."

Articles

Out of This World

A reflection story written about Jasper, an unforgettable patient I met when I was a third year medical student on a rural rotation. An intricate tale of Jasper's plight, his family's challenges around his end-of-life care, a personal connection to my father's death, and a discussion on our role as health care providers.