Sunday, November 21, 2021 - 10:21

Widdershins Round

By Natalie Whitis

First year medical student Lana Wright and Reggie Williams meet at the 1990 Student AIDS Forum.

Sunday, November 14, 2021 - 10:21

This Date in UCSF History: Student AIDS Forum Connects Patients and Caregivers

By Synapse
Monday, November 8, 2021 - 09:28

Excerpt from The Art of Amateur Sadness

By Match McGregor
Monday, November 22, 2021 - 09:24

Q&A With UCSF Alumna & Poet Jenny Qi

By Victoria Turner
In our latest podcast, we chat with UCSF alumna Jenny Qi, PhD, ’17, about how she went from publishing cartoons and news articles for Synapse to publishing an anthology of poetry, Focal Point, which received the 2020 Steel Toe Books Poetry Award. Below is an excerpt of that interview.
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Sunday, November 21, 2021 - 10:33

This Date in UCSF History: Doc Recalls Pre-Roe v. Wade Horrors

By Synapse
[Originally published in Synapse on November 21, 1996.] Before 1973, the year Roe vs. Wade guaranteed women the right to safe, therapeutic abortion in the U.S., David Grimes, MD, recalled visiting the septic unit of a Los Angeles hospital. Women seriously ill from botched illegal abortions lay in the twenty beds of the common ward. The ward was always filled to capacity.
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Sunday, November 21, 2021 - 09:55

Induction

By Zoe Onion
[Tied for third place in the Synapse Storytelling Contest creative writing category.] June 20, 2020 Just breath deeply -  I tell him, pressing the creases of the mask around his nose, mouth.
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