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Legacy

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My friends often complain when they see me laughing to myself as I stare at my phone. It's not entirely their fault, I don't think it is appropriate to start giggling out of the blue without proper context. The truth is that for many years now I have been working on a list of jokes that have made me laugh out loud, I have them saved on a file in my phone. While people tend to worry about losing their contacts and pictures when they replace phones, the first thing I do when upgrading my device is making sure 'The List' is safe. It dawned on me one day that the older I was getting, the more scarce the moments that made me laugh till my stomach hurt became. This realization, like many others, came to me in my final year at medical school. I will never forget the day 'The List' was born. My memory of that moment is pretty vivid, even though it occurred more than 8 years ago. This is probably because it was the hottest day of summer that year in

A Stroke Of Magic

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Staying true to the source material while trying to recreate the same emotional response in the reader is to me the biggest challenge of writing a new blog. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it takes exploitation of the infamous 'Creative License' to accomplish this task. On rare occasions though, something so remarkable happens that all I need to do is recount the exact sequence of events, with no added spice whatsoever to justify why the story needed to be told. I spent the month of April working at the University of Chicago. Established first in 1890, UChicago or UChi as it is sometimes referred to is a premier educational institute that ranks among the best in the world. The list of famous alumni to be associated with the university is enviable, and the medical center by no means lag behind the competition. Home to the latest in cutting-edge research and some of the best doctors in the country UCM is certainly living up to its mission to be 'At the forefro