A Rhode Island musician battles a deadly disease and love lost.

Michael Fine, MD has been an advocate for communities, healthcare reform and the care of under-served populations worldwide for 40 years. His career as a community organizer and family physician has led him to some of the poorest places in the United States and dangerous, war-ravaged communities in third-world countries. His experiences across the globe have enabled him to craft numerous short stories, novels and healthcare policy books about how we can change the world by empowering, caring for and educating one another. This podcast is a collection of new short stories by Michael Fine.

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The shamesh of a small prayer group in a synagogue struggles to find ten people to pray together. Help comes from unexpected quarters.

Michael Fine, MD has been an advocate for communities, healthcare reform and the care of under-served populations worldwide for 40 years. His career as a community organizer and family physician has led him to some of the poorest places in the United States and dangerous, war-ravaged communities in third-world countries. His experiences across the globe have enabled him to craft numerous short stories, novels and healthcare policy books about how we can change the world by empowering, caring for and educating one another. This podcast is a collection of new short stories by Michael Fine.

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A Liberian internet entrepreneur from North Providence, Rhode Island falls in love, sort of, with a Honduran doctor he meets when she comes to clean his mother’s house.

Michael Fine, MD has been an advocate for communities, healthcare reform and the care of under-served populations worldwide for 40 years. His career as a community organizer and family physician has led him to some of the poorest places in the United States and dangerous, war-ravaged communities in third-world countries. His experiences across the globe have enabled him to craft numerous short stories, novels and healthcare policy books about how we can change the world by empowering, caring for and educating one another. This podcast is a collection of new short stories by Michael Fine.

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Michael Fine, MD has been an advocate for communities, healthcare reform and the care of under-served populations worldwide for 40 years. His career as a community organizer and family physician has led him to some of the poorest places in the United States and dangerous, war-ravaged communities in third-world countries. His experiences across the globe have enabled him to craft numerous short stories, novels and healthcare policy books about how we can change the world by empowering, caring for and educating one another. This podcast is a collection of new short stories by Michael Fine.

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A violin teacher takes a pupil to the next level and finds the love of her life in her own lost dreams.

Michael Fine, MD has been an advocate for communities, healthcare reform and the care of under-served populations worldwide for 40 years. His career as a community organizer and family physician has led him to some of the poorest places in the United States and dangerous, war-ravaged communities in third-world countries. His experiences across the globe have enabled him to craft numerous short stories, novels and healthcare policy books about how we can change the world by empowering, caring for and educating one another. This podcast is a collection of new short stories by Michael Fine.

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Jack Shady-McCoy is a cop assigned to guard a US senator in the face of rowdy demonstration. Then someone unexpected appears, and help comes from where Shady-McCoy least expects it.

Michael Fine, MD has been an advocate for communities, healthcare reform and the care of under-served populations worldwide for 40 years. His career as a community organizer and family physician has led him to some of the poorest places in the United States and dangerous, war-ravaged communities in third-world countries. His experiences across the globe have enabled him to craft numerous short stories, novels and healthcare policy books about how we can change the world by empowering, caring for and educating one another. This podcast is a collection of new short stories by Michael Fine.

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A doctor sees a 36-year-old Hispanic Female with fatigue and abdominal pain – a patient. A young woman falls in love with a married man who tries and fails to leave his wife for her. Two people occupy the same narrative but might as well exist on different planets. One lives by reducing the experience of others to a medical chart progress note. The other lives and loves in a world of heartache and desire. Who is wise? Who is rich? Who is good?

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Michael Fine, MD has been an advocate for communities, healthcare reform and the care of under-served populations worldwide for 40 years. His career as a community organizer and family physician has led him to some of the poorest places in the United States and dangerous, war-ravaged communities in third-world countries. His experiences across the globe have enabled him to craft numerous short stories, novels and healthcare policy books about how we can change the world by empowering, caring for and educating one another. This podcast is a collection of new short stories by Michael Fine.

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A young Latinx woman from Pawtucket works evenings, sitting with a crotchety old white man.  Then the pandemic hits and she can’t keep working, until she does. Her life is upended. Even more than most lives have been.

Michael Fine, MD has been an advocate for communities, healthcare reform and the care of under-served populations worldwide for 40 years. His career as a community organizer and family physician has led him to some of the poorest places in the United States and dangerous, war-ravaged communities in third-world countries. His experiences across the globe have enabled him to craft numerous short stories, novels and healthcare policy books about how we can change the world by empowering, caring for and educating one another. This podcast is a collection of new short stories by Michael Fine.

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They always talk about the victims, those poor people who keep getting screwed.  Like we don’t know that those poor people is us. They always talk about the middle class, like the best anybody wants is average.  They never talk about the love between people, about our communities, because they just can’t remember that we exist and our communities exist to do way more than just to vote for them.  They never talk about justice or democracy.  All they ever talk about is themselves.

Michael Fine, MD has been an advocate for communities, healthcare reform and the care of under-served populations worldwide for 40 years. His career as a community organizer and family physician has led him to some of the poorest places in the United States and dangerous, war-ravaged communities in third-world countries. His experiences across the globe have enabled him to craft numerous short stories, novels and healthcare policy books about how we can change the world by empowering, caring for and educating one another. This podcast is a collection of new short stories by Michael Fine.

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Winning the lottery can change your life but it always comes with consequences. Some you never expect.

Michael Fine, MD has been an advocate for communities, healthcare reform and the care of under-served populations worldwide for 40 years. His career as a community organizer and family physician has led him to some of the poorest places in the United States and dangerous, war-ravaged communities in third-world countries. His experiences across the globe have enabled him to craft numerous short stories, novels and healthcare policy books about how we can change the world by empowering, caring for and educating one another. This podcast is a collection of new short stories by Michael Fine.

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