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Dr. David Smith
Synapse 70th Anniversary

Reflecting On The Launch Of The Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic

As a medical student, faculty frequently remind me that I am in a unique position. Medical students are unhindered by the restraints associated with paid institutional roles but empowered by our growing body of clinical knowledge and structural failures making our voices apt for advocacy.
March 3, 2026
Mallory Shingle
Mallory Shingle
School of Medicine
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Surgery in UC Hospital operating room, 1924.

The Operating Room as a Time Machine

February 24, 2026
Saffanat Sumra
For more than a century, the operating room has quietly recorded not only what surgical culture values, but also how...
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Confession of the Eye

February 3, 2026
Mariana Arino
It was late on a ‘full moon’ night in the emergency department — a phrase the ER staff used to...
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This Date in UCSF History: Laugh. It’s Good For You

December 9, 2025
Synapse
[Originally published in Synapse on December 2001.] It’s been one of those days. You lock yourself out of your car...
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X-rays and Seeing

October 21, 2025
Jessica Ainooson
Before I ever came near a stethoscope or a white coat, I understood the beauty of X-rays. The reasoning was...
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Nobel Prize

This Date in UCSF History: Medical Breakthroughs Earn Nobel

October 14, 2025
Synapse
[Originally published in Synapse on October 12, 2000.] Three winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine were announced in Stockholm...
Medicine
Patient in Wheelchair

Patient Encounter Note

October 7, 2025
Saffanat Sumra
[Second place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest for non fiction.] S: Subjective. “June” is a 79-year-old woman with a...
Medicine
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The Urgent Need for Climate-Resilient Healthcare in Puerto Rico

September 8, 2025
Leyda Marrero Morales
Imagine this: It’s your first semester of college — just one month in — and you suddenly can’t reach your...
Medicine

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