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A Match Made to Profession
You finished medical school. Time to get a job, right? Wrong! Finishing allopathic med school gets one an MD but does not allow one to actually practice medicine. For that you have to complete what is more or less a paid apprenticeship, termed a “residency” because it involves essentially living at the hospital for the…
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Beginning of the Beginning of the End
When last I wrote, I had successfully presented my PhD thesis proposal and was celebrating that the progress bar of my ridiculously ill-conceived plan for post-graduate education had reached the neighborhood of 25%. Now, a short while a long while over five years later, readers may be surprised to find out that several events have transpired in the…
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Chatter
People are talking. I see them smiling and hear the rise and fall of their laugher, their voices flowing around me as I slip soundlessly through the moving clusters. They seem so excited, but I cannot fathom what new information they have to share or plan or communicate–perhaps nothing at all. I know the exercise…
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Library of the Heart
Some hearts hold open books, hiding their secrets in the space between words. Others protect them between heavy covers, firmly closed. My heart has no book at all, because One by one, I tore out the pages, Sealed each into envelopes, scattered by the wind, Such that nobody— Could ever find— Them all.
Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.