Storytelling Contest

Friday, March 6, 2020 - 17:35

Appointment at Tank Hill

By Victoria Turner

Tank Hill is a short, steep walk from Parnassus campus. While studying for the qualifying exam in my PhD program, I spent a lot of my days sedentary, just reading and writing.

Saturday, February 8, 2020 - 11:05

Paused

By Ninad Bhat

Seated in plain sight he is invisible

The passersby halt for a moment to note

That something might be there, but they

Aren’t really sure.

 

She pauses a moment longer than most.

Monday, February 3, 2020 - 09:14

Patient Report (an excerpt)

By Abel Rivas
******* is a 50-year-old *******-speaking WOMAN, Present in the EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT. Immigrant from El Salvador.
Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 18:20

Closing The Cut

By Hansen Deng
With one hand pressed over the gash above my left eye in an effort to provide some hemostasis, I hurriedly walked into the nearest clinic that was open on an early Sunday morning.
Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - 11:05

Choices

By Ninad Bhat

They tell us we have options innumerable

An unseen multiple choice test, and even

Better - we do the grading. We set the rubric.

But some choices are traps and each time

Tuesday, January 14, 2020 - 15:24

Clinic Chronicles

By Le Wen Chiu
“When does the Clinic open?” I hear amongst the bustle as I walk down the crowded aisles of beds at the Multi-Service Center South with my pen, notepad, and stethoscope.
Friday, November 8, 2019 - 10:49

Patience

By Ninad Bhat

Editor's note: Ninad Bhat's "Patience" took second place in the Synapse Storytelling Contest creative writing, poetry category.

The room is encased in silence

Threads of conversation untwined for a moment

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - 10:44

Crazy Grad Stories

By Janice Goh
“I did a dose response curve using bleach. To my great delight, it worked perfectly! It was the most potent of all my test compounds.” — Alex Smart, PSPG graduate student. Drug development has been in a crisis, with the field of oncology being hit hard.
Monday, October 14, 2019 - 10:52

Ode to a Code Blue

By Kate Arriola

My first day on rotations was your last day on earth.

This morning when you woke up, did you think it might be the last time?

I hope you had a nice breakfast.

Saturday, October 12, 2019 - 09:57

Ain't No Fish

By Jeremie Joffre

Sunday morning in Monterey Bay, no tail tip on the horizon so far. The conversation was about transgenic zebra fishes lines breeding strategy when… Splasshhh ... too fast to see clearly what happened but definitely it wasn’t a zebra fish.