Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Graduate school is a lot of work. While the type of work varied throughout my first three years here, expectations remained high. These expectations are… Read More »Creating Scientific Interest Through Video Games
For me, it was Bob Dylan. I was a high school junior, and my sights were set, quite limitedly, on romance, sports and the fretboard… Read More »The Illness Narratives of Kendrick Lamar
I recently took care of a young infant who was found to have eaten a single-use detergent sac, otherwise known as a laundry pod. The… Read More »Is Convenience Harming Our Children?
One of my favorite things about Johns Hopkins is that I get to count some pretty extraordinary people as my friends and fellow classmates. One… Read More »Meet Chris Cho: M.D.-Ph.D. and BCMB Student, Plus Ballet Dancer Extraordinaire
Does anyone remember being asked if they were left-brained or right-brained? That’s how I recall my friends and I attempting to find our academic niche.… Read More »Effective Communication: How Do Johns Hopkins Scientists Learn to Speak?
An earthquake shook Baltimore our first day of anatomy. Days later, a hurricane moved through. That was our first week of medical school, and Mother… Read More »Class of 2015: Four Years a Family
Imagine you are a pediatrician working in an emergency department when a young female patient who was recently diagnosed as bipolar is brought in by… Read More »Pediatric Mental Illness Crisis: Barriers to Pediatric Mental Health Services in Our Current EMS System
On the afternoon of May 12, 2008, a magnitude-8 earthquake hit Sichuan province, a mountainous region in western China. Official figures stated that 69,197 were… Read More »With Disaster Comes Hope