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Have you ever heard of the Tetris effect? After playing the Soviet puzzle game for, say, hours and hours and hours on end, it starts to alter your perceptions of

I had only a week until my final exam in clinical communication skills. A class like this would be, in any other medical school, a course about what questions

I decided to treat you to another flashback I had while attending medical school in Israel. It’s more than just a walk down memory lane though. The scene I

If you’re keeping up with this blog, you’re joining me in the latter half of my second year as a medical student in Israel. But there was a whole

The weight of culture shock isn't easily thrown off. Even though I am just several months away from having been here for two full years, I still find myself

Life in medical school is mostly sitting in lectures and studying until bedtime. However, one has to unwind from time to time. And a little time away from the books

What is Easter like in Be’er Sheva? It’s not like anything because it’s Passover here. I’m such a funny guy. But really, unless you’re a Christian, or a somewhat attuned

You may ask, well, how did I get here? Heavy brown fabric covered the three walls of my cubicle. It was the sort of fabric that was so dense you