Corona viruses

Corona radiata in the brain

Corona radiata of the female ovum (egg)

The sun's corona

There's more ass here than in a Nicki Minaj song

المهم، يكلك الجينز جان عليه طلب كلش جبير وصار رمز للثورة والحرية بألمانيا الشرقية (قبل سقوط جدار برلين).
بوقتها ألمانيا الشرقية جان نظامها شيوعي وتابعة للإتحاد السوفييتي، بالنتيجة ما جانوا يستوردون ولا يصنّعون بضائع رأسمالية شريرة مثل الجينز... وباعتبار كل ممنوع مرغوب: الجينز صار كلش طاش بين شباب ألمانيا الشرقية (وبنفس الوقت زاد التشدد الحكومي ضده، بحيث الطالب اللي يلبسه ويروح للمدرسة جان ينطرد)

Imagine a government falling because of rock & roll, and blue jeans

The modern civil wars are now partially because the colonialists told different nations that they were one nation in one state, and then after the colonialists were chased out a dominant people emerged within the state who wanted to rule it all, thus ensuring violence.

— Prisoners of Geography

لقد أتينا من الظلام، وإلى الظلام سنرجع. أمّا الفترةُ المنيرة فيما بينهما نسمّيها الحياة. ما أنْ نولد حتى يبدأ الرجوع، رحلةُ التقدم للأمام والعودةِ للأصل في ذاتِ الوقت؛ نحنُ نَموتُ في كُلِّ لحظة. من أجلِ هذا صَرَخَ الكثيرون: الهدفُ من الحياةِ هوَ الموت!
لكن ما أنْ نولدَ حتى ندخل صراعًا من أجل أنْ نَخلُقَ ونُبدِع ونُحيي ما ليس حيًا؛ نحن نولد في كل لحظة. من أجل هذا صرخ الكثيرون: الهدفُ من حياتِنا الزائلةِ هوَ الخلود!

Medical school

The worst part about it Or should I call it "the dark side"?
Beside got you anxious, depressed, and self-doubting..
When you get used to others suffering .
Normal words like " I'm in pain " turns tragically to a " diagnosis".
And anytime you see a person, you seek for their medical signs.
Someone is pale (maybe he has anemia .. which type? Iron deficiency ? nah unlikely at this age...).
A few years after, people became nothing but" cases " you will unintentionally mask their pain and everything you see is not an enough stimulus for you to empathize with and I can assure that the process is quite tragic.

The only thing I could say .. not everything here should be related to your exam scores
There is interpersonal skills that unfortunately you do not really learn.
Try not to lose your heart during this hard long journey. Save your empathy Because that's what makes us homo-sapiens .

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Foucault called it the "medical gaze." It is the way the doctor looks at a patient and only focuses on the relevant "biomedical" information, discarding anything else that is personal or human about the patient. The medical gaze is what turns the patient into a case.

The medical gaze serves a very important role to find a diagnosis and cure the patient. But it serves very little in the communication with that very patient (especially the chronically-ill, those who must live the rest of their life without a cure). In such patients especially, a more humane and social approach is much more important.

See, that's why I love medicine: because it stands at this delicate (sometimes even awkward) intersection between science, philosophy, and down-to-earth social work.
There aren't many other fields that give you this much intellectual breadth