Medical Student Contributing Writer
CUNY School of Medicine
Saud is a first generation third year medical student at the CUNY School of medicine from Brooklyn. Saud has interests in interventional radiology, patient centered care, and educational medicine. Saud uses poetry and artistic visuals as a form of expression & catharsis. His other interests include hiking, bike-riding, cooking, and basketball.
Medical student Saud Rehman has written a collection of poems focusing on the lockdown of March 2020 with artwork to give a visual representation of how he felt. Often times the manifestations of moods unrelated to coursework go overlooked, especially in medicine, and Saud hopes that these provide a representation of the humanity behind students going through difficult times.
An ICU nurse turned medical student reflects on the COVID-19 pandemic’s severe and lasting impact on health care workers and the acute shift to the new normal of expectations in the inpatient setting.
After learning that her father was diagnosed with COVID-19, medical student Catherina Lubin ruminates on her deepest thoughts, emotions and perspectives as a medical professional and, despite this gut-wrenching reality, how she ultimately found reaffirmation of the quintessential quality, which makes us uniquely human: hope.
Medical Student Contributing Writer
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
I'm Cat Lubin, a 3rd year medical student at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn. I am Haitian-American, a lover of the arts in all it's forms and will be pursuing a career as an Emergency Medicine physician. My hope is to one day meld my love of the arts and medicine together in an organization aimed at bringing healthcare to the disenfranchised communities around the globe, through the realization that health far surpasses treating symptoms, but includes the emotional, psychological, spiritual and physical well being of an individual.
