UT Southwestern Medical Center
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Upon receiving the personal preference sheet for pediatrics, I was faced with a bit of a conundrum: I had always intended to avoid kids and consequently had done little in the way of thinking about pediatric subspecialties. Given that two [...]
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Doctor.
A title.
Is this me?
There are times when I wonder if the single purpose of medical school is to whittle away splinters, to separate wheat from chaff, to forge steel from impurities – to remove anything that might distract a person from being a [...]
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He was the first person I have ever seen die. I’ve seen people who were dying, almost dead, better off dead, and as good as dead, but he literally died right there in front of me. It was kind of subtle, really. Just [...]
Nannan Zhang, M.D., Class of [...]
Endless hours of practice exam questions on the computer, coupled with a nagging guilt of not studying enough, led me to feel this way…
Blissfully lithe, seated supineBlinking laconically at the bright hazeThe computer flickers, the eyes blinkBut nothing filters through the mind's maze.
A labyrinthine depositof filth so rotten, that the mind's numbnessBeguiles the owner's [...]
Thomas Heyne, M.D., Class of [...]
Medical treatments often involve manipulating natural progressions in the body to improve outcome. The bamboo plant represented in white plaster was genetically engineered into a spiraling form, but my sculpture takes this concept one step further to include nuts and bolts supporting the plant structure, emphasizing [...]
With this drawing, I was attempting to use a specific angle of light (from below) to accentuate shapes of the human face that we do not usually see (notice shadowing above the nose). The portrait is a study of the human face done realistically in order to appreciate details, shape, proportionality (or lack [...]
Portrait of a general surgeon at Medical City Hospital.
The ArtistAshley Stone, M.D., Class of [...]
Artist: John Matt Hancock
I wanted to create an abstract expressionist representation of a cardiac pathology that could only be recognized by the medically trained eye.
Tetralogy of FallotAbout the Artist: John Matt Hancock
John Matt is a second-year medical student at UT [...]
Author:Jennifer Harris
Medicine is tuned so often to the busyness of sights and smells—to the shocking red of blood or perhaps the stench of gingivitis and decay. Somehow it is the sounds that seem to take more effort and stillness to hear. With this poem, I tried to capture the isolation, the universality, the pain, [...]
Author:Anoop Sheshadri
Jonah was a farmer and a farmer’s son and all the big-city swindlers and small-time hucksters couldn’t change that. He was born at the homestead and delivered by Father’s own big hands, because after all a boy was smaller than colt or calf and plenty of those came into the world by that [...]
Author: Nicky Chopra
The first experience of death and dissection in the anatomy lab is a powerful one for any medical student. This letter was written retrospectively to a woman who chose to donate her body for this most insightful interaction.
When we first met you I had so many questions about your life. What did [...]
Author: Anoop Sheshadri
The story was originally for an ACP contest to write a story of 1,000 words or fewer with the theme “compassion in medicine.” At the time I’d been reading about the history of medicine and the dual role played in many cultures of the physician as both doctor and shaman. I’d also [...]
