By “The sounds echoing – outside the alleyway. Steady footsteps. The odd snatch of laughter, syncopating the beat. The x-rays rustling beneath the girl’s worn shirt, like white noise, like an insatiable itch, like a sputtering lighter on the last of its oil that, despite the silent Moscow snow, refused to go out.”
Film Review: Capernaum
The movie follows a Syrian refugee child who attempts to sue his poverty-stricken parents for bringing him into the world (yes, you did read that right). Over its 2 hours and 30 minutes of running time, it takes our beloved Ethics Wheel and unapologetically explodes it into a thousand little pieces.
The Weekly Petri: Brave New World
But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
Med Fresher Figuring Out How to Slip Her ATAR Into Every Conversation
A cultish obsession as old as time itself piqued the curiosity of the Jugular investigative team and our reporters sampled the experiences of med freshers regarding the stereotypical peacocking exhibited by high achievers of 2018.
Med Student Graduates Without Making Friends Because Did Not Attend Medcamp
“If only I knew earlier that the Foundies assignment did not count, I would have been able to attend Medcamp and experience what I’ve been missing all these years: the warmth of another human being… I often wonder what that feels like,” said Jarse when questioned, staring longingly at a circle of students congregated on the lawn.
Second Year Student Plans to ‘Study Harder This Year’, Misses First Week of Lectures
“My body just sort of forgets to wake up,” claims Timmy Little, a prime example of the culprits. “Today’s lectures were probably low-yield anyway.”
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.
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’.”
Fatherhood in Medicine
She pointed to me – “Who’s this?” He said “Man.” That moment was crushing.
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
