Ciela Ramirez
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Looking to focus on history of science/medicine with a healthy dose of human elements, but you will also find some fiction, culture, and personal stories
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"Born A Man, Died a Gastroenterologist": Tales of My Journey Toward Doctor-hood
The quote above comes from Kitchen Table Wisdom, by Rachel Naomi Remen. I found that book at a rather low point in my life, in the midst of severe personal upheaval and around the time that I realized that the world of academia was not for me. I went into college convinced that I would eventually hold a Ph.D. title, and I graduated in summer of 2021, 18 months after what many of us colloquially called the End of the World. At the time I felt completely unmoored, certain only (although I had not yet admitted it to myself) that research was the wrong choice. My body knew it, at least: upon receiving an acceptance from a well-respected graduate program in my preferred field, the knowledge that I had no good excuse to refuse, that I would have to sign myself away for the next 5 years—it brought bile to my throat.
By Ciela Ramirez 3 years ago in Humans
Amelia. Runner-Up in Return of the Night Owl Challenge.
The mouse jerked this way and that between her fingers. It squeaked with urgency, gnashing its teeth to bite at her. Delia held the creature by its tail, watching with fascination. “C‘mon,” Lucas instructed. “like I showed you.”
By Ciela Ramirez 4 years ago in Fiction
