10-15 Minutes
By far, one of my favorite aspects of medicine is its progression towards speed and accuracy. A full genome can be sequenced for the cost of a Step exam, with a similar turnaround of only a few weeks....
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Author
Fatemah Alzuhairi
A Change of Heart
Sometimes a patient ‘introduces’ themselves before you even see them. From where we were in the hallway of Banner University’s cardiac floor, a resounding tempo stood out amidst the usual noise of a hospital, and the Hospitalist was...
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Teal or Turquoise
Or blue-green. The exact color of the hospital-issued scrubs are not as relevant as their purpose: to prevent eye strain (as opposed to the all-white scrubs of prior, think of it like ‘snow-blindness’) as well as to provide...
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“Hello, Future Doctors…”
We learn a lot from what we see. We invent visual modalities that capture our surroundings, converting them into numbers to be shared and studied. Medicine has manipulated physics and made these forces visible—radiation, sound, the oscillation of...
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Unweaving the Brachial Plexus
I come from a family of teachers, and so teaching was revered in my upbringing. I had unique insight to the experiences of those in my family—the teaching of literature, the arts, geography. In the same vein, medicine...
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