Abdelfattah Al-Shafei is a human medicine student and writer. Between lectures and long nights of study, he writes the stories that medicine cannot hold: the ache of living far from home, the helplessness of being unable to reach the ones we love, and the quiet courage of ordinary people in the hardest of times. His writing is personal and honest, and it is written for anyone who has ever loved from a distance. In Your Eyes, the Collapse of My Medicine is his second published story, written for his mother.