July 2010
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One day down, 1824 to go...
Survived my first day of class! Actually, “survived” is a misleading word as it implies that class was an ordeal—it was really relaxed and I think the next three weeks will be the perfect way to ease into my first year of med school.
I thought I’d take this opportunity to describe in further detail what exactly I’ll be doing with the next five years of my life. ...
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Article of the Day: NYT "Adventures in Very Recent... →
I got an email last night from my friend in Beijing with a link to this article. The lead is classic:
“Ten thousand years ago, people in southern China began to cultivate rice and quickly made an all-too-tempting discovery — the cereal could be fermented into alcoholic liquors. Carousing and drunkenness must have started to pose a serious threat to survival because a variant gene that...
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Welcome
O hai. *almost* med student VLee here.
I’ve experimented with blogging before (see: study abroad chronicles to show my parents that i did not, in fact, die in africa; a personal tumblr full of pretty pictures) but i wanted to give it another go now that I’m starting a new chapter in my life. I hope this blog will:
focus on global health, medicine, medical anthropology, bioethics,...
