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I know you’re tired. I know you stayed up late last night to finish that lecture; or to go to a rave.
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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.
When our brains turn to tofu, who will feast?
Give me a recipe for making tofu.
Certainly! Here is a recipe for making tofu:
A Silhouette and its Shadow
When we examine a moment in time, we can often characterise society by the distinctive silhouette of the people who occupied it.
Eating the Other – Medicine, Mortars, and Egyptian Mummies
mu·mi·a (also mum·mi·a) /ˈməmēə/ noun: A medicinal preparation of powdered human remains, widely prescribed in Europe from the 12th to the 18th century as a panacea for wounds, bruising, and various internal ailments.
How to survive First Year Medicine!
First of all, congratulations for making it into medicine! That was certainly no easy feat so you should all be proud of yourselves!
The Two Day Rule
By Jacky Jiang; Edited by Rosie Kirk While the freedom to do what I want when I want is something that I highly value, this…
Why Do We Learn?
By Ivan Shen, Edited by Rosemary Kirk A few weeks ago, my lovely SG facilitator Professor Peter Baume told our group that collectively, the world’s…
The Not-So-Wonderful World of Medical Eponyms
“Many commentators in recent decades have labelled the use of eponyms impractical, inaccurate and outdated, some even advocating to eliminate eponyms from the medical literature altogether in favour of more standardised terminology.”