Tag: wellness

Olivia Dhaliwal (2 Posts)

Resident Contributing Writer, Editor

MAHEC Boone Rural FMR

Olivia is a resident at MAHEC Boone Rural FMR, OH. Born and raised in Erie, PA (and sort of California, too) she has lived in eight different states since starting college and took a roundabout journey to medicine. She hopes to pursue rural family medicine, with a focus on integrative and preventative medicine. When not studying, she is likely to be found working out at CrossFit, practicing yoga, reading fiction, writing poetry, spending time outside with her rescue pitbull Baylor, or traveling to her next adventure.

Food and medicine in America: harms of industrialization, and paths to healing

Published by Olivia Dhaliwal

Food production and distribution and medical training and care have been similarly corrupted due to the prioritization of profit and emphasis on end results that value volume over quality by implementing assembly-line-like protocols. This has led to a crisis in preventable chronic disease, and a dearth of primary care physicians; both crises can begin to be healed through the use of small-scale, community based efforts utilizing biodynamic regenerative agriculture and local farmer’s markets, and the provision of care by Direct Primary Care family physicians who can provide affordable and accessible whole-person, whole-life care.

How to Declare Someone Dead: A Brief Reflection

Published by Shannon Fang

Shannon Fang, medical student, comments on the necessity of processing emotionally stressful encounters in medicine.

The Medical Student Behind the Mask

Published by Rachel Lawson

Rachel Lawson describes her challenging experiences during her first year of medical school at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and how her experience was profoundly impacted by a vaccination clinic.

SIRS

Published by Ervin Anies, MD

Dr. Evin Anies utilizes haiku about systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) to reflect on his journey as a newly-minted physician.

Who Am I?

Published by Micaela Torres

Medical student Micaela Torres reflects on her progress in healing past traumas and improving her mental health.

The Unusual Curse

Published by Scott Jamieson

Medical student Scott Jamieson dissects the delicate balance of wanting to carry the burden of all of society’s health problems with necessary personal down-time and how students often struggle with these aspects of their lives.

Scott Jamieson (2 Posts)

Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

Welcome to Mosaic in Medicine! I currently in the class of 2022 at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. Medical humanities is one of my passions. I love how medicine has the potential to inspire some of the most profound art and reflection. In addition to editing Mosaic in Medicine submissions, I enjoy catching up on current events, exercising and anything on HBO. Hope I get to read your piece someday soon :)