Appearance: 25-year-old female, appears older than stated age, dark bags underneath her eyes, wearing wrinkled hospital scrubs, holding empty cup of coffee in her hands. No physical scars. Behavior:…
Author: Sylvia Choo
Sylvia is a first-year medical student in the CORE program at USF. She studied Ancient Greek and Latin as a classics major at Stanford University. She is passionate about medical humanities and joined The Pulse to share and shed light on important medical issues. In her free time, she likes figuring out what new ingredients she can throw into her fried rice and bouldering at the local climbing gym.
A Day at The Free Clinic
The night before my first time volunteering at a free clinic as a medical student, it took me a solid hour before I was able to fall asleep. The typical…
Giving Thanks
Before I go to sleep each night, I open up a small, gray notebook and write down three things I feel thankful for that day. When I was an undergrad,…