Medicine Archives - Page 8 of 14

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 […]

Added on August 20, 2019 Fourth Year , Emotion

Jungle Drum

IV.II.VII JUNGLE DRUM Okay, here is where I recount the tales of what was another hell of an adventure, one that takes us into the heart of the Amazon Rainforest. I flew into Iquitos as soon as I got to Lima – all sweaty, stinky and exhausted but super ready and excited for what was about to come. The Amazon […]

Added on August 13, 2019 Fourth Year , Emotion

Viva La Vida

IV.II.VI VIVA LA VIDA Seasoned and wizened by my days as a solo nomad, I was ready to embark on the second leg of the journey. I know I had been in Peru for only a week and a half and that the trek had been done by millions before me, but it was still a big deal to me. […]

Added on August 6, 2019 Fourth Year , Emotion

The Old Mountain

IV.II.V THE OLD MOUNTAIN The fourth day… the fourth day was fine. The fourth day meant we’d be walking around 15 kilometres along some train rails. It’d be a straight path on a flat terrain, not too challenging, not too exhilarating either. In fact, the only things that made it interesting were the random conversations I had with my fellow […]

Added on July 30, 2019 Fourth Year , Emotion

The Ravage of Time

IV.II.IV THE RAVAGE OF TIME The rocky and foggy terrain surrounded by the icy glacier peaks of the first day slowly gave way to warmer, greener surroundings as we neared the tropical rainforest. Once again, I was in a jungle! With arms in the air and toes curled upwards (as much as Blister would allow), I took a deep breath […]