WGW: October 23rd, 2019

Every week I send out an update to the medical school, which gets send out as part of WGW (What's Good Wednesday), an email where the associate deans of students compiles the professional and academic accomplishments and life events of the student body in an effort to help keep us connected even though we are spread out across lecture halls, campuses, and hospitals across the state. Usually populated by sporadic submissions of significance, after talking with friends before I left, I decided to twist the format to suit my needs to stay connected to my class. After the fifth week of consistent submission, my update was given it's own special place and title: Kassel's Corner. 

Kassel Galaty (formerly of Med20, now of Med21) continues to be in the UK. She went to several FASCINATING lectures this week, highlights include: "Smell in the 18th century," The Lungs of a Ship," "Philosophy of Psychiatry," and "How Should We Deliver Babies." She is meeting her 28-year-old milestones, which include making new friends and going for bike rides through the English countryside. It looks like her first essay topic will be about the 1965 NHS Report on the Standardisation of Hospital Medical Records and will require a trip to the National Archives in London!

For continued photographic evidence that she is in fact in the UK, refer to the above/below pictures (I leave the layout decisions in Dr. Schneider's capable hands) where you will note her hiking near Edale in the Peak District (notice in particular the windy conditions indicated by her hair and the dramatic change in weather from blue skies to clouds and horizontal rain), as well as images from her bike ride around Cambridge which offered such sights as a red telephone box now converted into a free lending library and the DNA Cycle Path, which runs from Addenbrooke's Hospital to Great Shelford, and is decorated with 10,257 colourful stripes which represent the four nucleotides of the BRCA2 gene. Cheers!