Memoir of a Med Student Archives

AFTERWORD

AFTERWORD I sit here writing this journey’s last few words. It’s bittersweet really. It truly feels like the end of an era. An era full of highs and lows, ups and downs, happiness and sadness, but most of all, love, adventure and wisdom. These five years have changed me in more ways than one. So much so that I feel […]

Added on June 19, 2020 Fifth Year , Becoming

Today

V.II.II TODAY Today… Today I am a doctor. Today I sit here, incredulous and in disbelief as I write this sentence. Today, I am a doctor. Against all odds, despite all the obstacles, today, I am a doctor. I was surrounded by my best friends when the results came out. I wasn’t emotionally overwhelmed or particularly excited. I mean, don’t […]

Added on June 18, 2020 Fifth Year , Becoming

Tomorrow

V.II.I TOMORROW Tomorrow marks the start of the end. Tomorrow I start my finals. Some seven years ago I decided I wanted to become a doctor. Five years ago I took my first step. Five years of hard work. Five years of learning and studying and practising. Five years of adventures, five years of growth. Five years. All leading to […]

Added on June 11, 2020 Fifth Year , Discovering

Myself

V.I.VI MYSELF It was still all very new with Marco. Right when we felt we were heading somewhere, the world seemed to have suddenly turned against us. What? I’m being overly dramatic? Okay, okay, sorry – I’ll tone it down. When I received the news I’d finally be going back to hospital, I realised we couldn’t be around each other […]

Added on April 14, 2020 Fifth Year , Discovering

A Twist

V.I.V AN UNEXPECTED TWIST Everything was falling right into place… Until everything came crashing down. All my hopes and dreams and goals? The balance I had worked so hard to find? Love, adventure, wisdom? None of that mattered anymore. Everything was now in disarray, disrupted. Leave it to the universe to wait until I got my crap together to throw us […]

Added on February 4, 2020 Fifth Year , Discovering

Great Expectations

V.I.IV GREAT EXPECTATIONS It was full steam ahead. Interview, check. January exams, check. Only one semester to go and I’d be a fully-fledged doctor. Sure, there’d be some bumps on the road, but if everything went according to plan, it would be smooth sailing or something close to it. Becoming a surgeon had been my goal all along. I knew […]

Added on September 17, 2019 Fifth Year , Discovering

Last Round

V.I.III LAST ROUND Amidst all the chaos and drama, I was also embarking on my fifth and final year of medical school. Holy friggin’ crap. I was almost there. Almost. I could practically taste it, the moment I’d get to ditch my ‘Mr.’ for a ‘Dr’. I mean, duh – of course that had been the only thing I was […]

Added on September 10, 2019 Fifth Year , Discovering

Idealism

V.I.II IDEALISM Recent events had shaken me to my core. Once again, I’d become conscious of the state we seemed to be living in. I couldn’t stand how much reality diverged from the ideal. It was something I’d dealt with easily years back, after my awakening. Back then, I’d started noticing the same discrepancy between how things are and how […]

Added on September 3, 2019 Fifth Year , Discovering

The Sound of Silence

V.I.I THE SOUND OF SILENCE It took a while for me to get it. Took a while for me to finally understand that being strongly opinionated is not enough. And when I realised that, I was done. I was done being a wallflower. I was done staying on the side-lines. And for the first time in my life, I stood […]

Added on August 27, 2019 Fourth Year , Emotion

One With Nature

IV.II.VIII ONE WITH NATURE From fishing for piranhas to ziplining over treetops, from drinking from vines to swimming with pink dolphins (yep, we did end up finding a couple at the end!), adventures in the Amazon seemed to be never ending. And so it was only fitting that my final adventure would be one that would bring everything to a […]