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Summer Summary
I’ve actually been busy recently and haven’t had time to post! Quick summary of what I need to post about. Only one more month before med school really starts! (Hopefully this doesn’t turn into a med...
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Medical School Graduates
New York Magazine profiles 39 recent graduates in a photo slideshow here. I like how they did this with the portraits and short Q&A. Some insights: Got any good rookie-doctor stories? My first day...
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Yunnan, China
Didn’t ever get around to actually writing about my trip to China so I will just do it in quick “virtual postcard” form here… Yunnan is a province located in southwest China, just north of Vietnam and...
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Tomorrow is the first day of school
My dear friend bchan is a 4th year med student and has been a wonderful guide so far in this journey, a few steps ahead of me and always sharing her experiences and expressing her thoughts on her path...
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med school!
purge all of the extraneous information in your brain and fill it with anatomy!!!! i have so been meaning to update this more regularly and with stuff about what i learned during my gap year etc etc...
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Study Break
“Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged people who kept on working.” how to become open to life The Most Astounding Fact – Neil deGrasse Tyson
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the optimist
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” - Winston Churchill “Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and...
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it’s been a longg time
Poor abandoned blog, sometimes I forget you exist. I also forget how to write proper English sentences and have traded my vocabulary for a new set that I am still struggling to become fluent in. I’m...
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Author Your Own Experience
“The biggest lesson for me, I think, is the degree to which we actually help to construct the world we experience. If you see the world in positive terms, that affects how you act on the world. There...
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Human created obstacles
Fear is such a powerful emotion- a powerful force that drives, or rather blocks, us in various aspects of our lives if we allow it to. Worry is a result of fear. Fear can be the one thing that holds us...
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Lots to Learn
1. Learning for a reason. The structure of traditional education allows you to progress with just “getting by”. I can cram the shit out of some class, dump all that info the next day, and no one will...
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Shifting your mindset
Life is complicated, problems are complex, things are never fair. We have an arsenal of negative emotions at the ready, waiting for a moment of weakness for us to succumb to- frustration, anger,...
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T-24 days
It’s that time of the year- the time that seemed so far away but is already here. It’s Step time! A little over a week ago, I finished my last preclinical exam and was officially halfway done with med...
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Surgery- Sept 2014
People say in choosing a specialty to first consider whether you are going the medical or surgical route. I was 100% certain surgery was not an option for me. After struggling through Gross Anatomy...
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Hope in the time of cancer
During our behavioral science course, one of my favorite professors was always reminding us: as physicians our most important role is to provide hope to our patients. “Hope” seems like an innocuous...
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Transition
We expect to learn a lot during the third year of medical school. After a life of studying from books (or syllabi and Powerpoints in modern medical education), the transition to clinical rotations is...
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Insecurities
It’s been hard for me to sit down and write something for the last month. When I write, I want my words to flow smoothly, for the piece to wrap up with a cohesive insightful conclusion. Often, this...
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December on the Wards
Of the most poignant moments of being on the wards, two are common to all medical students. How special it is that we are involved intimately in the lives of strangers, eyewitness to their most...
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3 Surgery Clinical Vignettes with no multiple choice questions following
1. She had freckles all over her face, framed by brightly colored glasses. The way she looked, so small and thin, and the way she silently glanced over at her mother whenever the doctor asked her...
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