As medical students, particularly in our clinical years, it can often feel like we are at the mercy of other peoples’ subjective opinions to define our value as future clinicians and it often feels as people are given the centrality of medicine to our lives. While it is undoubtedly true that our seniors play a […]
Reflections on Anatomy
Ever since I was a little kid, I think I’ve been obsessed with words. I loved the idea of capturing a feeling in a sentence or describing a person so completely that you could see them right there in your mind. The perfect words in the perfect order, or at least that’s what I strove […]
The Hand of God
The only time I have ever prayed was at the foot of a hospital bed. Medicine has its roots in religion, and even now for some patients, spirituality is such an important aspect of their lives that treatment without prayer would be unthinkable. In my brief time in the hospital, I have seen what some […]
