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The Weekly Petri: Pain, Paint & Frida Kahlo
Kahlo’s life was marred by great suffering- chronic pain, alcoholism, infidelity, physical disability and mental illness were experiences often reflected in her art.
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Student Still Not Really Sure What Causes Clubbing
“Look, no-one really knows but it sounds pretty slick when we say ‘Schamroth’s window is present’.”
MedFac To Test Final Year Students’ ‘Words Per Minute’ To Assess Suitability For Internship
“Yeah look, once on my gastro term the consultant asked me to do the notes and instead of ‘patient due discharge’, I mistyped ‘patient die discharge’. Safe to say boss wasn’t happy.”
Fatherhood in Medicine
She pointed to me – “Who’s this?” He said “Man.” That moment was crushing.
Med Student Falls in Love With Every Young Intern at Their Hospital
One has to wonder where all these eligible interns come from, since there seems to be little evidence of med students of their calibre. Perhaps it is a stable income and clinical competency that is the crucial missing factor.
Dr Greg Fox: MSAP Co-Founder
The idea for MSAP arose during the elective that Greg Moloney and I undertook in Malawi. This was in 2000, at the height of the HIV epidemic. We could not ignore what we had seen, but had an ethical responsibility to do something
Med Student Excited to Update their CV After Getting Elected to MedSoc
“I’m just really excited to make a difference for students and do things that matter and-…Sorry gimme one second, just quickly posting this on my profile.”
The Weekly Petri: Edvard Munch and Painting the Psyche
Munch’s art explored themes of repression and instability representative of his own mental anguish; they were deeper messages awaiting diagnostic interpretations.
The Mad Artist
“It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill – it’s a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I’m all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I’ll always remain half crazy.”
Special Snowflake Med Applicant Claims He Doesn’t Even Know How Much Doctors Earn
“I just want to help people,” Clippon informed us before we even had a chance to ask him his name.