The Jugular
Why pick one? On side hustles in medicine.
One medical student closes her anatomy tabs and switches to editing her ‘day in the life’ videos, while another swaps his lab coat and scrubs for a casting call and band practice. And by Monday morning, they’re both back in the same tutorials and lectures as everyone else.
Déjà vu – Have We Been Here before?
You speed-walk into the lecture theatre, slightly out of breath with your morning coffee in hand, trudging down the stairs as students whip their heads around to see if their late-coming friend has arrived.
A Comprehensive Medical Student’s Guide to Coffee
Like many, if not most medical students, if you see me at any time of the day, there is a 95% chance I will be holding an iced oat latte in my hand.
About Haemostasis
There was an empty,
Aching,
Hidden
Hole in my heart,
And somehow or another,
Someone has found it
And haemostasised it for me.
When our brains turn to tofu, who will feast?
Give me a recipe for making tofu.
Certainly! Here is a recipe for making tofu:
How To Be the Best: Another 110% Real Day in the Life of a Perfect Med Student
3:33 am: First alarm of the day. My failed talking stage sent me a post about angel numbers once and I believe in starting the day right.
How Much of Human Nature is Truly Human?
Kyren Lavan ed. Summer Pan The question of nature vs nurture is one that has been discussed since humanity has recorded its first stories. In…
Sunscreen: Beyond the (Skin’s) Surface
Saif Alam ed. Asmara Downey We’re all familiar with sunscreen: that greasy substance we begrudgingly apply in summer because the sun will burn us alive…
Perfect Pitch or Perfect Practice
Perfect pitch has fascinated me ever since I first discovered it existed. About 0.01% of the population have it – about as rare as finding…
Winter Days
In the winter days the clouds paint the sky a melancholic shade of grey. The falling snow obscures all vision until you cannot even see two feet ahead.