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By publications@medsoc.org.au August 25, 2022August 26, 2022 feature/informative/originals

What was once a simple fact

I. ‘Rhys?’ She looks up, startled. ‘It’s been a while, hasn’t it?’ he laughs, picking up her books when she knocks them over. A while is an understatement, she decides. For years, she had him held in her mind in the same way one might hold onto a simple fact;

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By publications@medsoc.org.au March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 informative/originals

10 things I hate about Zoom

Written by Grace Smith, Edited by Saleha Sehgol Your guide to navigate online learning, the return to in-person classes, and the first term of 2022 (with a little help from a 90’s rom-com classic) Often our heads are a mess of everything we must keep track of as  medical students.

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By publications@medsoc.org.au October 27, 2021 originals/Uncategorized

The Colosseum

By Saleha Sehgol; Edited by Allyson Tai The spectators.  The amphitheatre invites the masses, drawing them in to mindlessly worship the online feats of others. They’re ravenous, for the taste of instant gratification dances on their tongues, yearning to witness the infallible mesh of lives beneath them. They morph into

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By publications@medsoc.org.au October 20, 2021 opinion/originals/Uncategorized

Offshore

By Jerrica Kuan; Edited by Zoe Wei “Second-year international offshore students are returning soon.” The time is too early in the morning (or too late at night). You are an offshore medical student, waking up for class in a time zone that stays the same, for a country whose time

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By publications@medsoc.org.au September 17, 2021 originals/Uncategorized

The Apple Tree

By Hannah Yuan; Edited by Allyson Tai They say the human body is made up of millions of individual cells that communicate with each other by firing neurons and synapses, sparks and live-wire. When we age, they degenerate. The ends wither away and those once electric connections become muted and

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By publications@medsoc.org.au August 7, 2021 opinion/originals/Uncategorized

Lockdown II

By Saleha Sehgol; Edited by Yaron Gu Tabula rasaOr back to square one?That mask,Second skin.Seasoned hecklers,Second season.Peak hour drones,A haunting threnody of cicadas and mynas.To every crevice this hollowness reaches –Not quite, for it fails to appease the beaches.   Crimson fury dribbles and spitsHow are the bearings still not

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By publications@medsoc.org.au July 23, 2021 opinion/originals/Uncategorized

Musings on Lockdown

By Hannah Yuan; Edited by Katerina Theocharous This piece was written on 27th June 2021, at the onset of the current NSW lockdown. Given the recent extensions of the lockdown, we believe its messages are now even more relevant. ~~~ “Like swallows, like salmon, we were the helpless captives of

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By publications@medsoc.org.au June 14, 2021 opinion/originals/Uncategorized

The Month of Pride and Prejudice

By Jerrica Kuan; Edited by Zoe Wei June, the dreaded month when we realise that all our New Year Resolutions have not come to fruition; questioning our lives as the mid-year glazes over us and the end of the year nears; wondering what on earth we have been doing for

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By publications@medsoc.org.au June 4, 2021 opinion/originals/Uncategorized

A World Without Oxygen – The Devastating Impacts of India’s Recent COVID-19 Spike

By Jay Patel; Edited by Yaron Gu April 24:  10:50 am – Ajay Koli boards a flight from Pune in western India to New Delhi to see his parents who are infected with COVID-19. His father is hospitalised and hooked up to an oxygen cylinder, whilst his mother is in

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By publications@medsoc.org.au May 14, 2021 opinion/originals/Uncategorized

FAIR IS FOUL, FOUL IS FAIR – A Commentary on the Silent Modern Day Killer: Societal Apathy

Written by Saleha Sehgol; Edited by Allyson Tai “Fair is foul, foul is fair.” Though the words were written by Shakespeare well into the 17th century, I fear the alliterative statement is more relevant than ever.  I fear we’ve become accustomed to slapping on the bandaid, ‘it’s just the way

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