2013 Plexus - University of California, Irvine – Medical Education

2013
PLEXUS
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UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
2013
EDITORS IN CHIEF
CREATIVE WRITING
VISUAL ARTS
LAYOUT AND DESIGN
AUDIO
MARKETING AND OUTREACH
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CONTENTS
LITERATURE
2 Hair Nguyen Thanh Nguyen
5
Nguyen Thanh Nyugen
7
Nguyen Thanh Nguyen
12
Johanna Shapiro, PhD
13
Meghann Kaiser, MD
14
Frank L. Meyskens, MD
17
Kelsey Goodman
23
Anonymous
25
David Cheng
29
Frank L. Meyskens, MD
34
Bryce Spitze
35
Eric Ballon-Landa
38
ART
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2
3
Bradley Jacobsen
Carter English
Ian Parker, PhD
4
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Cipriano Hurtado
6
7 Oh, Guss David L. Tran
8
Ruth Hsu
9
Kyle Smith
9
Carol Taylor
10
Ian Parker, PhD
11
Tanni Thai
11
Ricardo Perez
12
Ricardo Perez
13
Carol Taylor
13
Wendy Houghland
14
Ben Franco
15
Christy Tabit
15
Qiche He
16
Stefano L. Sensi, MD, PhD
17
Val Engstrom
18
Val Engstrom
19 Amaya Fransisco Saucedo
20 Jay’s Jazz Man Rolanda Engstrom
20
Stuart A. Green, MD
21 UCI Hospital, 2009 Ben Kilpatrick
21
Lorianne Catherine Burns
22 Positano Michael Connor
23 Australian Rainbow Carter English
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Ruth Hsu
24
Alan Widgerow, MD
24
Kyle Smith
25
Gina Youn
26
Kim Kennedy, CRNA
26
Lili Chen
26
Jerod Rasmussen
27
Adam Truong
28 Fruit Bowl Maria Tabita
28
Kim Kennedy, CRNA
30
Linda Rodriguez
31 Craniology Virginia Liu
32
Ian Parker, PhD
32
Stuart A. Green, MD
33
Bradley Jacobsen
36
Cipriano Hurtado
37
Cipriano Hurtado
39
Allison Zha
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Adam Truong
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It’s a A Bug’s Life
Bradley Jacobsen
MS1
Photography
The Frog
Carter English
MS2
Photography
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Hair
Nguyen Thanh Nguyen
Spring pea shoots
of the scalp.
Tendrils for a mother’s
locket.
Lingering grounds for a future
lover’s gaze.
MS3
while a thicket of bangs
like Billy Collins’
“Special Glasses”.
They are linear reminders
trailing
in your car
on your shirt
on your pillow
clinging shamelessly to
your socks
like I wish I could.
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Trekking Costa Rica
Betty Wong
Fellowships Program Coordinator
Oil on Canvas
Preying Mantis in Antelope
Canyon: Arizona
Ian Parker, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology
Photography
A Good Day
Cipriano Hurtado
UCIMC Security
Photography
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The Fruit of My Actions
Nguyen Thanh Nguyen
MS2
Where do we come from? Where do we go?
fro?
what you do there,
bear?
Where’s hope?
“ENOUGH!”
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trees,
The Mask
Betty Wong
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Name: Adorable, Completely
Date: the best week of medical school
Time: a good morning
Newborn
Nguyen Thanh Nguyen
MS3
Physical Exam
General Appearance:
Head: You are blessed with a full head of silky black hair, the generous locks nearly brushing
Eyes:
Ears:
Nose:
Throat/Mouth:
Neck:
Chest:
Oh, Guss.
David L. Tran
MS3
Photography
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Cardiovascular:
Abdomen:
Musculoskeletal:
Neurologic:
Skin:
Comments:
Boy With Water Buffalo
Ruth Hsu
MS2
Photography
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Mirage
Kyle Smith
MS1/Prime
Photography
Anvil Cloud
Ian Parker, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology
Photography
Stampede
Carol Taylor
L&D Department, UCIMC
Watercolor
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A Catch
Tanni Thai
Senior Financial Analyst:
Controller Services
Bird of Paradise
Ricardo Perez
Cancer Survivor
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Hummingbirds in the Garden
Ricardo Perez
Cancer Survivor
Allergies
Johanna Shapiro, PhD
Professor of Psychology
A minor surgery
The assistant
places a sterile pad
with a hole in it
my back
Do you like tension?
he asks the doctor
When the needle slides in
the pain is unexpected
my eyes tear
seconds
the water brims over
spills down my cheeks
I sob silently
into the waxy paper
of the exam table
trying not to jiggle
First it’s about the pain
but then it’s about my
uncle
who just died
then starving children,
my daughter’s divorce,
the typhoon in Burma,
the guy in the Hummer
I drove here
all the things we carry
and can’t change
The doctor steps back
to my blotchy wet face
Your eyes are running,
he informs me
Do you have allergies?
I was about to correct
him
when I realized
he’s right
I’m allergic
to the world.
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Post-Call Poem
Meghann Kaiser, MD
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Life Panel
Frank L Meyskens, MD
[no title]
Carol Taylor
Watercolor
Portrait of Lincoln
Wendy Houghland
Spring Bouquet
Ben Franco
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Decorated Longtail Boats
Christy Tabit
MS1
Photography
[no title]
Stefano L. Sensi, MD, PhD
Associate Adj. Professor
Photography
[no title]
Qiche He
Assistant Medical Physicist
Photography
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Pediatrics
Reflection
Project
Kelsey Goodman
Van Gogh on Wood
Val Engstrom
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J.
was
a
teenage
Nude
Val Engstrom
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pressure the rest of her life? How do we expect
her to change her diet and be mindful of her
and start a weight loss regimen?
These issues aren’t and can’t be the exclusive
Amaya
Fransisco Saucedo
Acrylic
rise out of her circumstances and take charge of
doctor isn’t reaching the limits of medical
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profession and being forced to confront
back out into the world where our
We like to think of preventable illness
as an archaic phenomenon reserved to
acknowledge that people don’t have
can’t bear the thought that such a thing
Jay’s Jazz Man
Rolanda Engstrom
Russian Ballerinas
Stuart A. Green, MD
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Positano
Michael Connor
MS1
Photography
UCI Hospital, 2009
Ben Kilpatrick
Cancer Survivor
Thousand Island Lakes
Lorianne Catherine Burns
MS2
Photography
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Every Personal Statement
That I Have Ever Read
H
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Anonymous
Hmong Woman with Basket
Ruth Hsu
MS2
[no title]
Alan Widgerow, MD
Old Oak
Kyle Smith
Australian Rainbow
Carter English
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Am I There Yet?
David Cheng
I
MS4
used to follow the leaves of the trees
around me, used to always wonder how
wonder where I would be when those
the clouds, to an almost adult who wondered
why and where and then…what then?
to have handfuls of sand, jarfuls of bugs, can
fulls of clovers – a grasp and reach further
nights stop for a brief few, for a heartstopping
meant realizing that the world was bigger
Enmeshment of all the deepest innards of
bizarre and heroic events in the course of
then, it became growing older – realizing that
growing old wasn’t quite as far as I used to
lens of memory, wondering how I went from
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into the watery eyes of a baby, I wonder
if, under those ripples of wonderment and
Abstract Wave
Gina Youn
Cancer Survivor
Succulent
Kim Kennedy, CRNA
Oil Pastel
Nature of Emptiness Ferrofluid Millefiori
Jerod Rasmussen
Lili Chen
MRI Physicist
Oil on Canvas
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Tube Travel
Adam Truong
MS1
Photography
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Cottages at Crystal Cove
Kim Kennedy, CRNA
Oil Pastel
Fruit Bowl
Maria Tabita
Clinical Nurse III
Watercolor
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A Single Sob
Frank L. Meyskens, MD
When cancer visits your universe,
a companion feared, not wanted.
touchstones to your presence on earth.
the pain, the grief, your journey.
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Infinite Path
Linda Rodriguez
UCIMC Security
Photography
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Craniology
Virginia Liu
MD/PhD
student
Photography
Centuriesold Camelthorn trees
Ian Parker, PhD
Professor of
Neurobiology
Photography
Bay of Fundy Boats
Stuart A.
Green, MD
Clinical
Professor of
Orthopedics
Photography
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Inhale Simplicity
Bradley Jacobsen
MS1
Photography
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Are you Africa
Bryce Spitze
Endless seas of golden grass,
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The Little One
Eric Ballon-Landa
MS3
I
and a dangling toy, he starts poking at me. He lays his hands on my head, then wipes the goop
from the closed bathroom door that I pass on my way in, or the pillow-covered armchair in the
fat corner. The baby is there, dwarfed by her cradle-bed and covered in blankets, and I approach
the cradle to look.
in her mouth, and she smacks her lips against it, sucking rhythmically. Too easily, I pull her arm
protect unanchored vasculature that has almost nothing to nourish. Her belly is distended and
feedings that we send through her nasogastric tube every three hours. Who can tell if she is
hungry?
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mom can possibly be that is more important than being here; how a being as vulnerable as my
sit idle and let a stranger care for her dying child.
pay, lives to help live.
Feel the Love
Cipriano Hurtado
UCIMC Security
Photography
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California Reflection
Cipriano Hurtado
UCIMC Security
Photography
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We Are Taught
Samantha Costantini MS3
We are taught that the brain
Is a series of synapses
Flickering from one lobe to another
The brain
We are taught that heart
Is merely a pump
To circulate the blood
The heart
A thumping reminder of your humanity
That beats stronger and faster
We are taught that wrinkles are caused
By foldings of the epidermis
The wrinkles
Lines of experience
Earned from hours of smiling, worrying
And long days in the warm sun
Make up who you are
The hands
From those unable to turn a knob
You couldn’t wait to get out
How much easier is this
And one day
Truly think of such things
In moments of supposed “weakness”
In a box not nearly big enough
To hold the life inside.
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Leaving Liege
Allison Zha
MS1
Photography
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Front Gate
Adam Truong
MS1
Photography
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Split, Croatia
Allison Zha
MS1
Photography
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