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This Date in UCSF History: What Veterans Day Means to a Soldier

[Originally published in Synapse on Nov. 12, 2009.] Before coming to UCSF, I was a soldier in Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2005-07. My duties were as an Area Reaction Force Task leader and providing convoy security in Iraq for the delivery of supplies to the military units serving in the region I...
November 11, 2025
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Mama M: Torn Between Two Worlds

October 21, 2014
Mama M
I shouldn't admit this, but I started medical school mainly because I wasn't sure what else to do. What I...
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Professional School: A time to do what is important to you

September 24, 2014
Akshay Govind
Less than one month after I started dental school in 2004, my father suffered a heart attack, and it was...
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Is it Time for a Pub on Parnassus?

May 15, 2014
Angela Castanieto
UCSF students are currently in the thick of qualifying exam season, a time both of stress and of celebration when...
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15 Things That Pass for Normal Among PT Student... That May Seem Strange to the Rest of UCSF

May 1, 2014
Ilka Felsen
1. Watching people walk, and critiquing every possible gait deviation. 2. Noticing someone’s posture before the color of his or...
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UCaSeFiles: Clinical Cases from the UCSF Wards

April 24, 2014
Theresa Poulos
Welcome to UCa Se Files, a column in which short case vignettes are submitted by UCSF medical students, residents and...
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Creating a Round Square at SFGH

March 13, 2014
Akshay Govind
San Francisco General Hospital record keeping remains fragmented In my piece “Health Record Systems Affect Patient Care” (Feb. 27), I...
Opinion

Build a Kirkham Trailhead For Better Access to Mt. Sutro

March 6, 2014
T. Booth Haley
Mount Sutro is a rare, under-appreciated gem in UCSF’s backyard. Recent debates about UCSF’s long-term plan for this wild urban...
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Health Record Systems Affect Patient Care

February 27, 2014
Akshay Govind
I started a rotation at San Francisco General Hospital at the beginning of February—my first one there since the summer...
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Mama M: Struggling with Self-Confidence

February 20, 2014
Mama M
I am a student in the School of Nursing. I guess I don’t have a lot of self-confidence in general...
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