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 [...]
