This summer, a few M2 (Class of 2022) students shared their thoughts on big questions in life. What does fulfillment mean to you? What does living a “good life” mean? Here is a couple of their answers. This will be an ongoing series, as we all struggle with attaining the “good life” and “fulfillment.”
Self-improvement starts with a question, albeit a simple one:
“What am I doing that is right, and what am I doing that is wrong?”
Continue reading “Unconstructive Criticism: A Disaster for Students”
Super Humans. Eradication of genetic diseases. Rich people boosting their kids’ traits, poor people left in the dust. Playing God.
These themes are hashed and rehashed in the great gene editing debate. And they all must be taken into account in what I will attempt to do next, which is to lay out a (beginners version of) a moral framework in which to understand and judge gene editing.
My thesis is this: Continue reading “A Guide to a Gene-Editing Philosophy”
The beauty of medicine is that it is so expansive in meaning it cannot be captured by one single definition. As the age old saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In this post, we explore the meaning of medicine as defined and interpreted by two fourth-year medical students — Kristen Funk and Jimmy Nguyen.
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”
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”
Between my fingers and my desk
The computer in classroom rests
Snug as a phone in pocket
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?”
QeeQee Gao, M1, Class of 2022
A preview of the August 2019 Willed Body Ceremony
Thank you.
Two words that aren’t said enough. To our loved ones, a kind stranger, or familiar faces in our everyday lives. But today, the focus of my “thank you” is to you — the audience — and your loved ones who willed their body to medicine.
Continue reading “Thank You”
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