Archive for September, 2007

Rest in Peace, Robert Jordan

So I still need to post about the stethoscope ceremony and the first weeks of med school, the all-consuming experience of a first human dissection, the bewildering nature of a first standardized patient. But tonight, I’m going to interrupt the flow of this blog to note the passing of a wonderful author, Robert Jordan. You [...]

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S.W.E.A.T: Stanford Wilderness Experience Activity Orientation Trip

Medical school so far (at least for English-major-5-years-out-of-college me) has been like drinking from a fire hose. Everything hits you at once. As so many of the balls you previously were juggling come crashing to the floor. As noted by my previous post, blogging was one such. Here’s to hoping it was a rubber [...]

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Medicine is my Wife; Literature my Mistress, or “Literature, baby, I love you; don’t do me like that!”

But Literature, baby, I’ve got commitments. I wish it weren’t so. But you knew I was married when we met. And, frankly, you seemed happy to leave me alone during the MCAT. I know we didn’t get “serious” until afterwards, and we’ve just had a great summer together. But there will be other times. Now [...]

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