In California, when you’re looking for a burger that sits at the intersection of cheap and high-quality, you go to...

From time to time, Synapse has given itself permission to misbehave. These April Fool’s stories wink at journalistic rules, blur...

[Originally authored by E. Fuller Torrey and published in Synapse on March 31, 1969.] Machines are even making inroads into...

Entering clinical environments for the first time as a medical student, I expected to hear common phrases of wisdom. I...

[Originally published in Synapse on March 14, 2013.] During my first year of pharmacy school, I attended an alternative medicine...

I met Em on the way home the night I expected B would die. We’d both missed the light like...

Nowruz (or Norooz) marks the arrival of the new year and the first day of spring. It is an ancient...

[Originally published in Synapse on March 15, 2007.] The healthcare facility in the San Francisco County jail looks like most...

As a medical student, faculty frequently remind me that I am in a unique position. Medical students are unhindered by...

These lines reflect my gratitude for the opportunity to pause, re-center, and move forward with intention while pursuing my master’s...

[Originally published in Synapse on March 8, 1996.] To fast or not to fast is what Ramadan is all about...

For more than a century, the operating room has quietly recorded not only what surgical culture values, but also how...

I served as EIC of Synapse from Fall 2016 to Summer 2019. I wanted to serve as the EIC because...

[Originally published in Synapse on February 17, 2010] I am writing this the day after President Obama gave his State...