Class of 2018 Turns Out for ASDA Admit Day
The UCSF School of Dentistry welcomed the incoming Class of 2018 at ASDA@UCSF’s Second Annual Admit Day on April 5...
TABULA 2014
“It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is...
Reflections in the Psych Mirror
In my native language Shona, a popular aphorism advises “ seka urema wafa.” Roughly translated, it means “laugh at a...
Nephrostomy (for my aunt)
No OFF-button on the frickin' remote; the tv hangs like an eye which you watch prophilactically, in case it might...
World Backwards
As a young medical student, I sat across from my patient in the old neuro ward. A retired high school...
‘Stop Torturing Me’
As is usual practice at the Multi-Service Center, a homeless shelter in the heart of San Francisco, I was sent...
Wishful Ending
Let me die in winter Let me die in solitude past midnight with a flask of spirits a cigarette that...
Had the Wind Not Blown – July 11, 2005
There are these two bugs – a caterpillar and an ant. Despite these differences, the two are best friends. They...
Waiting for the Novacaine
The root still lives but the tooth is shaved off, capped in plastic, awaiting its crown of GOLD, not porcelain...