Losing Darren
Identifying details here have been changed to protect patient privacy. It wasn’t that the smile itself had an eerie quality—it was how the smile fell
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Student Experiences
Dear professor…
Medical students receive training during their first months at Baylor College of Medicine in the anatomy lab. They learn from their instructors, through peer-to-peer learning
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Fracture registries and fjords – a Norwegian travel experience
Through Baylor Global Initiatives, I won a scholarship allowing me to travel to Norway for six weeks in summer 2015 and work with the orthopedic
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Chinle, Arizona: Navajo Nation
During my second year as a medical student I set up my own away rotation in Chinle, Arizona. Upon leaving the great state of Texas, I
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A house of hope: volunteering at Angela House
The Matthew Carter Service Day started 14 years ago when a talented and well-loved Baylor College of Medicine medical student, Matthew Carter, was murdered. To
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The skydiver
By Donna Huang, Medical Resident He was a man who could fly, or at least “fall for a long time,” as he liked to explain with
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Becoming the patient – It’s not easy, folks
By Anup Shah, MS4 In June of 2013, I came down with the strangest illness. The events leading up to my visit to the hospital
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Keys to maintaining a healthy diet in medicine
By Paras Mehta, MS4 Throughout medical school, I have seen physicians discuss with their patients the importance of a healthy diet. Doctors tell patients that
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Where space exploration and medicine meet
By Andrew Holt, MS3 Astronauts are modern explorers. After conquering most of our own planet, we are starting to expand our reach. This comes with
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Being ready for anything
By Shehni Nadeem, MS2 My heart raced, blood dripped onto my hand as I held pressure on a gaping leg wound, and beads of sweat
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