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Literature

Make People Spend Their Own Money

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Make People Spend Their Own Money
Nathan Stacy, M1, Class of 2022

In college, my parents paid for my gas. I was broke (still am), but it was nice to not have to worry about the price of oil barrels.

In college, I always drove my friends around. Didn’t matter where we were going – ½ mile or 50 miles, I was always the driver. Sometimes they would offer to give me gas money, and I’d always tell them to not worry about it.

These are related. I knew that I didn’t have to pay for my own gas. So it didn’t bother me to always drive. It didn’t bother me to turn down gas money. It wasn’t really my money, you see. It was, as I like to call it, “magic money.” Continue reading “Make People Spend Their Own Money” →

Literature

A Sound Mind

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A Sound Mind
Zach Duarte, M1, Class of 2022
II Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

I remember vividly the moment I decided to become a physician. “Why me God?” I cried out into my pillow as my brother was taken to yet another mental institution. Another holiday ruined. Another cold Thanksgiving turkey. Nothing quite haunts me like the sunken eyes of my mother, looking for answers, and finding none. I cried. Continue reading “A Sound Mind” →

Literature

Medicare for All – What is it, Exactly?

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Medicare for All – What is it, Exactly?
Kate Dixon, Class of 2023
Kate has worked in Washington D.C. for the past two years in policy.

We’ve all seen the political tweets. Typically, something incoherent with poor grammar from one extreme of the political spectrum or the other (see my personal favorite about “HealtCare”). And as of late those tweets have had a lot to do with Medicare for All. But what exactly is Medicare for All (M4A)? Continue reading “Medicare for All – What is it, Exactly?” →

Literature

Systemizing Systematic Systems

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Systemizing Systematic Systems

Justin Coogle, M4, Class of 2019

The complicated reality of practicing medicine in today’s day and age

Health care is large and complex. Anyone who has spent one week working in a hospital, no matter the role, would agree to that.Even the layman who attends his annual physical exam or goes to see his doctor for a nasty cough obtains a glimpse of the complicated web we’ve found ourselves in when it comes to delivering care to the patient. Improving health care for our patients should be a universal passion, but health care reform isn’t so simple. If I were a betting man, I’d say no single piece of legislation or sweeping political campaign will fix the rut we’re in. Hot topics like “Should we switch to Single Payer?”, “Medicare for All!”, and “HMOs are the way of the future!” are all things buzzing on the news, because people are frustrated, which is totally fair. I’d like to share some issues that I think get overlooked in the national narrative and are the elements I personally find most disconcerting when it comes to the future of health care reform.

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Literature

Muy Valiente

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Muy Valiente

Allison Briggs, M4, Class of 2019

“Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.” The words read on Sunday came floating back into my mind as I wiped the dried blood off my 10-year-old patient’s foot, ankle, and shin. Her earlier crying had quieted to the occasional sob, and she was laying back on the emergency room gurney. Ten new stitches sat in a row underneath her knee, holding together her cut from the playground. I peeked a glance when I knew she was looking away, unable to stop checking that everything was in place.

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Literature

Community: an Antidote to the Medical School Vacuum

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Community: an Antidote to the Medical School Vacuum

Nathan Stacy, M1, Class of 2022

Do any of you feel a little bit…empty in medical school? If you don’t, you should read this anyways. But if so, you are definitely not alone. In fact, you have that in common with a majority of your fellow mid-20’s millennials. Referring to this time as a ‘quarter life crisis’ is no longer tongue-in-cheek. While we are accomplishing tasks, deepening our medical knowledge, and strengthening our resumes, there are many questions that can bubble up under the surface of this busyness: Is all of this worth it? Will it provide me a fulfilling and sustaining life? What do I have outside of medicine?

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Literature

A Friend

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A Friend

Justin Coogle, M4, Class of 2019

Justin Coogle is a published writer of the Kingdom Come series.

1 year before the events of Kingdom Come

I MISS MY old school, this new one is too lonely. No one is interested in being friends with me here, it’s probably because I came in late. I used to try to sit with a group of other boys during lunch, but they kept ignoring me. My teacher is really nice, her name is Miss Flora. She says that she is a master gardener and that we are her valuable flowers. I don’t like being called a flower. Flowers get stepped on a lot. The bell is about to ring for recess and my hands are sweaty. I can’t say I want to use the bathroom this time, I just went a few minutes ago. Maybe if I said I was sick? But I don’t look real sick, and I don’t want Miss Flora to think I am a liar. I really don’t want to go to recess. There is no where I can hide from them.

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