UCSF Graduate Student Parents Demand Return of Childcare Grant
Graduate students say they feel misled into choosing to study at UCSF following the University...
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Physicians are Patients Too: A Medical Student’s Exploration of Physician Identity
The refrain “In a healthy individual like you or me” is one I commonly hear as a medical student...
Brick by brick: A First-Generation Medical Student's Journey
As I sat at my childhood home during Thanksgiving break, the dissonance between my current reality...
This Date in UCSF History: Q&A With Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic Pharmacist
[Originally published in Synapse on October 14, 1993.] Greg Hayner, PharmD (UCSF class of ‘77), has...
Tomato
[Synapse Storytelling Contest second place winner for poetry.]
Tomato /tə’mɔ:dö/
On Sundays like...
Death of an Author
[Storytelling contest second place winner for fiction.]
Content warning: gore and self-harm
I look...
This Date in UCSF History: Latinos are Central to U.S. History
[Originally published in Synapse on October 9, 2008.]
Members of the UCSF community gathered in an...
Dear Chronic Pain
It’s been six months.
Uncertain. Unknown. Unremitting concern.
Sensitive nerves.
Irritated nerves.
The Mad Yet Sensible Artist, an Inner Dialogue (or I suppose, a monologue)
[Second place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest for nonfiction.]
Art always seems to portray...
about women and war
[First place winner in the Storytelling Contest poetry category.]
the curve of the earth aligns to...
This Date in UCSF History: Vitamin C a Cure for Addiction?
[Originally published in Synapse on October 3, 1977.] For the past decade, vitamin C has been touted...
