Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
NOTE: This blog post contains discussion of sensitive topics regarding mental health, depression, burnout and suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, please… Read More »Caring for the Caretakers —The Dr. Lorna Breen Act
“Why won’t this cough go away?” “It’s probably nothing,” I thought to myself. “I haven’t had any fevers, night sweats, weight loss. Could it be… Read More »A Mile in Their Shoes
Baltimore has its share of great restaurants, but Chinese restaurants are few and far between. As someone who is used to the vibrant Chinese food… Read More »Cooking for One: Chinese Food Edition
As part of my effort to reconnect socially as things have begun to open again after the omicron surge, I found myself in the warm… Read More »A Trip to No Land Beyond
All photos provided courtesy of author. What’s better than sipping piña coladas on a Caribbean island, you may ask? A warm cup of Cuban coffee… Read More »Above the Rosy-Fingered Dawn
Do you know that feeling when you read a book so good that its pages stay with you long after you put it down? A… Read More »Three Lessons from Fish
In the middle of January 2022, as Omicron surged, the Johns Hopkins Medical Student Senate (MSS) had to face the possibility that Match Day might… Read More »The Return of a Collective Match Day
Having to conduct three rotations across various labs for the first year of my human genetics Ph.D. experience has been both an exhilarating and arduous… Read More »Finding Mentorship As an Underrepresented Scientist
What does it mean to be a refugee or asylum seeker? According to amnesty.org, refugees are people who have left their country because they are… Read More »Worldwide Refugee Crises and How to Help
Women have been practicing medicine since its inception. Metrodora, an ancient Greek physician, wrote one of the oldest medical textbooks, and she pioneered surgical treatments… Read More »Women in Medicine, Then and Now