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“It’s not instant. It’s something you do over a period of time. It began with green accents. I’d mix green into my nail polish, and put green streaks in my hair. There’s a small school across the street from our house. And whenever I walked our dog Dylan, I noticed that the children responded to the green. They’d give me little, timid waves. Oh, I love children. Little, happy people. They’re just so naturally there. And they love green. They’re drawn to it. Children are always bringing me green things, and dropping letters into my mailbox. Sometimes I can’t even read the handwriting, but it makes me so happy. People make me happy. They’re always so loving and sweet. I’ve never met a negative person, I just don’t bother with that part of people. When someone approaches me on the street, I give them a hug, and say something nice. It’s all that I’m looking for. And it’s all that I find. It really makes a big difference in life, not to be closed up. It’s a way of life. Whether you become a doctor, or a lawyer, or a green lady, you’re accomplishing what’s in your heart.” #comebacknyc

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A Year Like No Other

1. Brooklyn, N.Y., April 20 Bodies were stacked in a refrigerated trailer at the Brooklyn Hospital Center. More than 20,000 New Yorkers died in the spring surge of coronavirus infections. Victor J. Blue for The New York Times

2. Queens, N.Y., April 1 Paramedics worked to resuscitate a coronavirus patient at a hospital. The borough emerged as the center of New York City’s raging outbreak. Philip Montgomery for The New York Times

3. Washington, Oct. 24 Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg set up over 220,000 white flags as part of an art installation outside the D.C. Armory to represent the nation’s death toll from the coronavirus at the time. Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times

4. Houston, July 15 A coronavirus patient on a ventilator at Houston Methodist Hospital. During the summer surge, the hospital created new virus wards, hired traveling nurses, and ramped up testing efforts. Erin Schaff/The New York Times

5. Mexico City, June 24 Workers burned the coffins of Covid-19 victims after their bodies had been cremated. Mexico had one of the highest coronavirus death tolls in the world. Marco Ugarte/Associated Press

6. Wantagh, N.Y., May 24 Olivia Grant hugged her grandmother, Mary Grace Sileo, through a plastic drop cloth hung on a clothesline. It was their first contact since the start of the lockdown caused by the pandemic. Al Bello/Getty Images

7. Manaus, Brazil, May 25 Rows of newly dug graves at a cemetery in Manaus, the Brazilian Amazon’s biggest city, where at one point every Covid-19 ward was full and 100 people a day were dying. Tyler Hicks/The New York Times

8. Manhasset, N.Y., April 19 Eliana Marcela Rendón was comforted by her husband, Edilson Valencia, as her grandmother, Carmen Evelia Toro, 74, lost her battle against Covid-19 at a hospital on Long Island. Victor J. Blue for The New York Times

9. Newark, Del., April 30 A nurse took a moment in a massage chair in an “oasis” room at Christiana Hospital, set up to give stressed medical workers a breather. Erin Schaff/The New York Times

10. Coventry, England, Dec. 8 Medical workers cheered for Margaret Keenan, 90, after she became the first person in Britain to receive the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. “I feel so privileged,” she said. Pool photo by Jacob King

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This week’s intern feels...

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Anaïs Nin, Fire: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1937

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Thank you, radiology, for knowing what I really care about.

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How do you find the motivation and energy to study all day in medical school. Travelling and attending hospital rounds/classes must make you tired. How do you find the will to study at hospital and home all the time.

I must admit it’s absolutely exhausting. Because I have an eating disorder, depression and anxiety I often feel like I’m running three full time jobs on top of medical school placements + study, as well as casual tutoring for GAMSAT/primary school English.

I usually try to maximise pockets of time, like making notes while hotspotting my laptop to my phone while waiting for the bus or on the bus, or listening to podcasts when I go for a run.

Attachments and tutes can be super stressful. I try to tell myself that it’s okay to leave at midday like other students but I often feel guilty and too awkward to do so. 

Do as I say and not as I do - I feel like it’s a good thing to take a day off if you really need to, but I find I often drive myself with a whip so even if my mental illness has kept me up all night and I’ve gotten three hours of sleep I’ll turn up anyway because I don’t want to let myself spiral. So long as you are safe and clear in mind.

I’ve also come to accept that I’m not the brightest or best student, but I am doing my best! Some days I’m not very productive but I also believe that a little is better than nothing. Bit by bit, we get there.

I hope you are doing okay, anon! You can always message me if you want to rant or chat.

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self help comic yes i cried when i thought of this and drew it immediately

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Do you have an Instagram account ?

I do indeed! It’s @eunipooni! I flip flop between making it private and public but it’s public right now ^_^ Hope you’re having a great day!

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Only Yesterday (1991)

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My only goal in life is to reach this level of peace

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18/4/20

What the heckkkk I haven’t posted since last year!

I’ve had THE WILDEST time and the closest calls:

I went overseas for elective

Did a placement in Florida at a healthcare centre for the homeless and went on outreaches in the woods

Went on a cruise ship (ahaha)

Did a placement in infectious diseases in Tokyo (also paediatrics, haematology and palliative care)

Went biking around Mt Fuji, did a kimono photoshoot, visited the cup noodle museum, climbed the two peaks of Mt Tsukuba in between 10-12 hour shifts

Started Critical Care at a different clinical school because mine locked out students

Met one of the loveliest girl (now doctor!!!!) who I first met here on Tumblr when we were both aspiring premeds

Had said placement pushed back a week out of the emerging pandemic

Was a maid of honour twice in two weeks

Did an e-bootcamp because final year medical students might be called to assistant positions

Resumed tutoring for GAMSAT as it ended up getting rescheduled to later (best wishes, guys)

I’m so, so tired. Things are insane right now and are settling but the workload may pick up when elective surgeries are given the green light to go back ahead, so maybe then we will be called for the Assistant in Medicine positions. I’d really like to do it but I feel really unprepared skilled-wise. I need a lot more practice with handovers, discharge summaries cannulas and generally navigating e-meds. 

With regards to critical care, I’m starting in the emergency department on Monday, which I’m super excited for! Anaesthetics was okay but unfortunately we couldn’t practice intubation because it is a high-risk procedure right now. Intensive care was pretty great and I wouldn’t mind doing it as a specialty but if I’m totally honest with myself I don’t have the brains or the hands for it. I’m not good at the physiology or procedural side of medicine and I feel like I’d never be good enough for it.

Anyway, that’s me for now. I hope I won’t leave such a large gap between this post and the next update. Stay safe, wash your hands and take heart!

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Saying “I didn’t mean to” is not the same as saying “I’m wrong and I’m sorry.”

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How are you going? How is elective?

Thanks so much for asking, kind anon!

A little update is that I somehow managed to pass Perinatal and Women’s Health!

Elective’s been really challenging, mostly because I don’t have my own space because I’m sharing with my mum but also with the interface between medicine and humanity in the demographics of the patients I see in the clinic.

So far I’ve had the opportunity to:

Do some parallel consulting with nurse practitioners, MDs and DOs

Meet some wonderful local medical students

Attend a memorial for the homeless who have passed away this year

Go on outreach and see some really confronting things, people camping out in the woods because they are homeless (the photo below is the saddest, it is the aftermath of a camp eviction, where someone must have been nursing a baby)

Shadowed a nurse practitioner in the HIV clinic

Overall it’s been incredibly enriching and very eye- and heart- opening. I’ll never forget the things I’ve seen and done here!

Hope you are doing well <3

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Hi! Your blog has been really insightful and helpful! I was just wondering for sII of GAMSAT, how did you incorporate quotes and what sort of things did you include in the application to humanity paragraph?

Hello! I incorporated quotes as a way to evidence my ideas, and most of the application to humanity examples would be things like examples in literature (since themes in books reflect concerns of the author’s milieu), or events in history which were related. Hope this helps, and best wishes!