Christopher Thompson
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My Summer with the Medical School Garden
There is a three-by-eight-foot raised garden bed nestled between the Cardiovascular Center, the Cancer Center and Med Sci I. It is the Medical Campus Garden, and this year it is host to a crowd of tom...
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Topography of a Spring Break
The author's Yiayia with her father's model built during the Golden Gate Bridge's construction from its scraps.
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An M1 Discovers What the Smoker Is All About
May of my senior year of college I was in a show called Deadsville. I remember standing backstage before our final performance trying to appreciate that this would probably be the last show I ever did...
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Medicine as a Calling
About a month ago, I attended a lunchtime lecture in which the speaker mentioned that a study found the majority of physicians believe their profession is a "calling." While this figure didn't entirel...
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New Friends
This summer I began medical school and started, once again, a search for friends and a community. I've moved three times in the last three years – from college in Rhode Island to an exploratory y...