“Wha’cha watching?” Derek asked as he pulled a plastic chair away from the bare common room table in the locked adult psychiatric ward. A man who I’ll call Mark sat like he had melted into the recliner in the corner of the room. Hardly a muscle tensed, with his belly nudging out from under his […]
The Best Lecture I Never Had
The workload of medical school is legendary. Class after class, seminar after seminar. Just over halfway through my first year, the days had begun to blend together and I spent my time in lectures just trying to soak up as many scraps of information as possible. In all this chaos, it was hard for anything […]
An Unconventional Reading List for Medical School
During the summer, before my first year of med school, I made it my mission to read as much as I possibly could. This was my all-consuming quest and I treated it as seriously as if I were stocking up on provisions for a long journey out to sea. I devoured books by and about […]
