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Issue 7 – Volume 2 – March 2017by Chelsea Uy What can surgical rotations possibly teach you that you can’t learn yourself during a weekend binge-a-thon of Scrubs or House? According to TV, hospitals are full of genetically blessed individuals, every case is an emergency and interns are allowed to perform complicated surgery sans supervision. However there are profound lessons for medical students to learn in even the most dramatic medical TV show – provided you
Issue 7 – Volume 1 – February 2017 by Rachel Collins There are many reasons to choose surgery as a career: prestige, high income, even the pressure of expectation from others. All legitimate reasons which research shows are normal for students aspiring to be surgeons. (Baschera 2015) Or if you’re like me, you just couldn’t imagine doing anything else. To you, medicine is surgery. Let me explain. Imagine a packed lecture theatre. This could