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Natalia

My Internship at The Lancet

Dear TLS reader and fellow med student: Like I promised, I will now tell you about my experience as an i

Medicine & Mathematics

Martin Luther said “Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful”. I think when he said "people" he actually meant "med students".

The Hippocratic Hypocrite

I am a hypocrite. I have been one for many years. And I only realized it a few weeks ago, around my 26th birthday.

Brain Drain

Buenos Aires hosted this year’s World Congress of Psychiatry and I had the opportunity to attend a seminar on Brain Drain by Dr. Javed Afzal, co-chair of the section on Psychiatry in Developing Countries of the World Psychiatric Association. I was impressed by what he had to say.

Never too late

I wanted to let you know, Dear Readers of The Lancet Student, that I have sat for and -much to my surprise- passed my last final exam. So, basically, my days as a full-time student are pretty much over. I am happy.

Tick Tock

Crying girl, Edvard Munch.

I’ve spent the last 6 weeks on elective at a local hospital, in the division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Teachers

In the last few years I've had a quite heterogeneous group of teachers. What follows is a brief satire of two of the most common clichés I encountered. Warning: This is not to be taken seriously!

The “prima donna”:

Keep silence?

When I was a child, there was one image I immediately associated with a hospital: the picture of a nurse, all dressed in white, prim and proper, holding an admonitory finger to her mouth, silently demanding silence with that simple gesture and a stern look in her eyes. For ten-year-old me, that image was unquestionable. Fifteen years later, I beg to disagree.

On Heroes and Tombs

I was in fourth year and it was my third week at the hospital, seeing patients for the first time. It was Wednesday morning. Next to my name, the note read “Bed 11562”. So there I went.

The believer

I think Medicine gives you a better appreciation of the smaller things and teaches us to count our blessings. Just being able to make yourself a cup of coffee, sit down, grab a book and highlight the same paragraph for the eleventh time, all that we take for granted and sometimes complain about, is nothing short of a miracle.

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