It’s 7:30am on a beautiful Tuesday morning. I had just survived a bombardment of medical school exams somewhat unscathed and finally had a day off to breathe… well, more so…
Author: Kareem Zuhdi
Kareem Zuhdi is a first year medical student passionate about narrative medicine, quality improvement, and mental and physical well-being. Studying to get his MD at the Morsani College of Medicine, he also works on the side as a volunteer crisis counselor for a suicide and crisis hotline as well as on the Lancet’s Child and Adolescent Health International Youth Advisory Panel. Kareem became involved with The Pulse medical journal in order to promote his vision of making medical knowledge more easily accessible to all people, free from the constraints of medical jargon and academic paywalls.
Consistency Contra Variance
Variability’s venomous vines are voracious in the vineyards of productivity, Violently starving vulnerable routines to the verge of vanishment Verily, variability is a valuable vehicle for change, vital for victory for…
One Diagnosis Away: A Narrative Poem on the Invisible Illness Experience
A student’s reflection on missed diagnoses
In Search of Perfection
Is being the best the bestWorking restlessly to one day rest LestThe goal is not the best but the trueEmbracing you, not him or who ForThere can only be one…