The more you know

I guess I finished my first year of med school yesterday. And the one word description that sticks out to me the most is: fast. As long as it felt at times, as trying and as challenging and downright annoying, it went by pretty quickly. What’s amazing about that is that this is no longer … Continue reading »

Regress

It’s been a bad week for humanity. Note, it hasn’t been a bad week for Muslims. Or Chechens. Or Indians, or Palestinians, or generally anyone of any minority group. None of these groups did anything wrong. Nor should they harbour guilt for anything that any one or two individuals did, who may or may not … Continue reading »

Packaging

We confirmed our tickets for our trip to Mecca, Medina, and Bangladesh this summer. Alhamdulillah (praise be to God). Alhamdulillah a thousand times. If there’s one thing I’ve never been able to get used to about North America, it’s the amount of garbage we needlessly make for ourselves. In the typical lunch I bring with … Continue reading »

The fairer sex

Think about this for a second: 1 in 4 women attending university say they have been victims of rape or attempted rape. Just think. Do you know more than four university aged women? Have most of these women ever attended a house party with alcohol present, a concert, a sports game, a bar, a rally, … Continue reading »

Friendship holes

I’m sorry to anyone who’s been following this. I don’t have a very good excuse for not updating, other than feeling very antisocial, at least when it comes to sharing anything meaningful with anyone. Oh, I’ve been doing fine with maintaining rapport and small talk and discussions about school, but beyond all that, I feel … Continue reading »

Food for thought

It strikes me, and has done for many years, that anti-religious secularism or atheism is a luxury than is indulged in by comfortable urbanised humanity who are many removes from having to live their lives in direct communion with nature, unlike their religious forebears. For example, on the eve of WW1 it was said that … Continue reading »

This is real life

Yesterday we had our first anatomy dissections. It was incredible for a number of reasons, the main one being that our team works so well together. We’re all supportive, we’re all looking out to make sure everyone’s feeling okay, isn’t dizzy or sick, wants to do a cut, doesn’t want to do a cut, holding … Continue reading »

Overwhelmed.

CPR block: Cardio, Pulmonary, and Renal–and quite literally the lifeline of medical school. You don’t give it your all, you will fail it. You don’t learn it well enough, you will suffer as a practising physician. You don’t keep up, you will get left in the dust. One week in and I can’t decide how … Continue reading »

Is this real life?

I watched a girl write down notes as we were shadowing a physician and he was giving us tips on patient interaction, and one of her notes to self was to ask the patient, “How are you doing today?” … I guess I know why they put us through all those torturous patient communication sessions … Continue reading »