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Many of us millennials toss around the term #firstworldproblems so easily. I know the fact that there’s whole milk in […] Read More

It has been quite some time since my last post. Qualifiers (the only thing close to finals at my school) […] Read More

Very recently, we had our last day of anatomy. Anatomy class quickly grew to become a defining milestone in our […] Read More

It’s already February and there are only four more units (behavioral sciences, women’s health, musculoskeletal, and nervous system) before one […] Read More

They say medicine is a hard science, based on heavily scrutinized theories and proven postulates.  Medicine is supposedly made up […] Read More

Photo Credit: Wikipedia I spent Thanksgiving evening on the floor of my mother’s one bedroom apartment, carving out pieces of […] Read More

She’s well into middle age*, but appears just days older than 40. Her eyes are sunken, tearful, worried, anxious. She […] Read More

I walk – coffee and census in hand – to my patient’s room. I never met her, so I begin […] Read More

It’s already November and I can’t believe that the semester will be done in a few short weeks! Even though […] Read More

Dear Sir, My name is Elorm Avakame and we met two weeks ago. Of course, you don’t remember me – […] Read More