The Forgotten Text is twelve chapters of narrative medicine about the formation of a physician from 2015 to 2020. It was written by a master of bioethics student at the Johns Hopkins Berman institute, who was on an academic leave between her third and fourth year of medical school at Puerto Rico.

The Forgotten Text explores, under an ethical lens, the encounters and challenges that medical students may face during their education. The analogy is akin to a butterfly’s metamorphosis, which convey a mysterious transformation process from caterpillar to a butterfly; or maybe a caterpillar enhanced with wings.