A few weeks ago, I was tasked to work on a much-need website redesign for Saturday Neighborhood Health Clinic. The Saturday Neighborhood Health Clinic (an enormously long name that’s difficult to fit on a header), by the way, is a free clinic that the medical students at my school help run, for which I’ll be [...]
‘Medicine’
Why I could never design for a living
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010The most amazing surgical instrument ever
Monday, July 19th, 2010Behold, the laparoscopic knot pusher. A few days ago, I attended a basic laparoscopic surgery1 training session– the kind of “enrichment” stuff us lowly pre-clinical students are given the opportunity to play around with every once in a while. They taught us a number of drills, one of which was to suture a length of [...]
Pictures of my brain
Thursday, June 24th, 2010I signed up as a healthy volunteer for an MRI research study a few days ago, and today, I went in to get my brain scanned. Pretty cool, right? Apparently, I have a lot of grey matter… and a lumpy, but surprisingly round head. By the way, if you live near a research hospital and [...]
