Remembering that patients are human too
It took about eight months of clinics before my first patient passed away. I routinely felt death (and life) passing through the hospital halls as
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Progress Notes
Makers, Minders, and a Medical Student: Stepping Out of My Comfort Zone
Huy Nguyen is a first-year MBA candidate at the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. He is pursuing his MD/MBA in conjunction with
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Creating ‘Stories from the Center’
Doha Aboul-Fotouh sat down with MS2 Daniel Wang to talk about his project, Stories from the Center, an inspiring set of photo essays about physicians,
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Global health reflections from Kathmandu, Nepal
After the lights went out for the third time as we ate dinner, Dr. Anil Ghimire, calmly shrugged as he said, “This is Nepal, my
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Welcome to the Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network!
Baylor College of Medicine’s first blog, Momentum, was born three years and over 1,000 blog posts ago with a mission to write about medical and
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Reexamining maternal mortality in Texas
MS4 and MPH student Jaden Schupp Kohn discusses the controversy surrounding a new report of rising maternal mortality rates in Texas and its implications for
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Yes, of course I named my cadaver
Perhaps one of the most defining moments in medical school is unveiling one’s cadaver for the very first time. It occurs in programs all over
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MS1 life begins now!
Compiled by Doha Aboul-Fotouh, David Mathai, and Julia Wang At Baylor, classes started two weeks ago and we asked… Upperclassmen: What would you go back
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Deep brain stimulation and the era of scientific psychiatry
MS3 David Mathai discusses the history of a functional neurosurgical procedure and how the technology plays into the evolving landscape of mental health. He became
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