I came to Tampa from Michigan and did not know a whole lot about the city prior to beginning medical school besides the fact that they love their lightning down…
Category: Research and Discovery
Five Evidence-based Ways Meditation can Help Physicians
The foundation of medical progress is evidence. Yet, many non-harmful complementary medical therapies are incorporated into people’s daily practices with little empirical scrutiny. This has left many with the impression…
Don’t Judge a Face by its Features
One student’s reflection on first impressions and attractiveness
Charles Richard Drew
One student’s research on Charles Richard Drew, a physician who made numerous discoveries in the field of blood banking
Medicine: The Noblest Stressor
Medical doctors take care of the sick, but who takes care of medical doctors?
Reflections of Course 1 at USF
It’s a hot Friday afternoon, and I am in MDD 230 sitting on the right side of the auditorium, 4th row from the back and somewhere in the middle, cramped…
Plants, Pills, and Why Physicians Should Have a Vested Interest in the Environment
You wake up to the blaring sound of your alarm. Your head aches from a late night spent studying. You open your medicine cabinet, find a nicely plastered container labeled…
The Approval of Aducanumab Scares Me. It Should Scare You Too.
The practice of medicine is based upon the Hippocratic Oath. This oath, attributed to the Greek physician Hippocrates, set the ethical framework for our profession over two thousand years ago….