my roses are yellow, as yellow as the hair of the mermaiden,

[Originally published in Synapse on January 19, 1978.] Do mental patients check their constitutional rights at the hospital door? Do...

With five minutes left for the clock to strike 12, I was standing on the roof of my building looking...

Lately I've been relating life to dentistry and I don't find much difference between the two.

[Originally published in Synapse on January 4, 1996.] The bomb scare that welcomed many UCSF students back to class Tuesday...

What does craft making and science have in common? Quite a bit if made by members of the UCSF community.

[Originally published in Synapse on December 19, 2003.] Why is the greatest insult one can hurl at a boy is...

As I sit behind the wheel, knuckles pink and white, fingers clenched. I roll my windows down, the August night...

Marie Antoinette, former Queen of France, marches through the Place de la Revolution as onlookers jeer and throw vegetables that...

I got the call during anatomy lab, while holding your heart in my palms. Otosan has heart failure, said my...

[Originally authored by San Francisco orthopaedic surgeon Edward T. Kelley and published in Synapse on December 13, 1961.] Recent remarks...

Call me old-school, but I love going to the cinemas. From as young as I can remember, my mom would...

Not the darkness that stars bathe in Not the brain illness that requires saving

Pipetting takes approximately 1027.66 hours/year-person (unpublished) in an average biology lab, and a way to automate that process would save...

I became a runner during my clinical rotations of medical school. When my days overflowed with meaning. So much to...