UCSF Students Stage Die-In To Honor Dead Palestinian Healthcare Workers
On Oct. 8, dozens of UCSF students wearing scrubs, white coats, lab coats and stethoscopes, laid...
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The Thing
[Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest poetry category.]
They walked long and...
Want A Healthier California? Invest in Primary Care
A 6-year-old girl rushes into an emergency room (ER) on a gurney, her chest violently heaving as her...
This Date in UCSF History: What is ‘Occupy’ Achieving?
[Originally published in Synapse on November 3, 2011.] Two months ago, demonstrators began showing...
Snack at the Beach
UCSF Graduate Student Parents Demand Return of Childcare Grant
Graduate students say they feel misled into choosing to study at UCSF following the University...
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...
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.