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Field Dispatch #4
lost in the jungle and other fun travel tales
Now that I’ve got your attention (well hopefully, I can’t think of too many more exciting subject lines than the one I just fed you), here is the scoop. So where to start? I suppose at the beginning. Or rather, where I left you dangling in suspense [...]
Field Dispatch #3
of mobs (the friendly kind), bugs, and jellyfish
Dearest readers,
I have so many new adventures to tell you about, but I must restrain myself and try to keep some sort of logic and order, so unfortunately you’ll have to read the regular email first and just wait for the juicy tales until the next time I [...]
Field Dispatch #2
From Mae Sot, this time
Hello all!
I find myself in a tiny yet strangely cosmopolitan little town called Mae Sot, in western Thailand, on the Burmese border. Although you can walk from one end of town to the other, on your way you will pass a variety of people-Westerners, both of the tourist, trekker, and NGO-worker [...]
Field Dispatch #1
From Rangsit, Thailand
Dearest readers,
Please accept my most sincere apologies for my most unexcusable delays in writing to you all, let me assure you that you have all been uppermost in my mind, it’s just sometimes the fingers don’t follow the heart…typing-wise, that is. Anyhow, for those of you weren’t aware, you will probably be only [...]
Buried Treasures
I forgot how good it feels to write. Not just a short little blog, or a journal entry, and no, not even those lovely papers that we all enjoy writing. I’m talking about writing a short story, something I used to do frequently when I was young, but somehow got out of the habit of [...]
The other side of the fence
OK, so this post is coming up a bit late, but you all know me by now, so I have no need to explain that I’ve been meaning to do it for ages, but somehow time always escapes me in my eternal busyness.
Interview time. We all remember it so well. Waiting with baited breath [...]
So many things to do, so little time…
They say that med students tend to overdiagnose themselves with all sorts of diseases and disorders as they recognize that they are presenting with the very same symptoms as many of the diseases they’re learning about. Well, I think that I have diagnosed myself with an illness that I realize that I’ve had for a [...]