I remember much of my time in medical school in New York as a bad Girls setpiece, filled with unflattering, if honest, behavior I fear would come off as "unprofessional" in a published piece. The sanitized version: The first two years of med school required too much memorizing, and so I took lots of
Doctors as Writers: Overshare, Be Real - The Atlantic
I don't even like Girls that much, but I like the way it defamiliarizes "the patient encounter" (i.e. the patient visiting clinic): On Girls, medicine is gross, which it is and should be on screen. It shows public hospitals and private hospitals in what feels like a new light --
Doctors as Writers: Overshare, Be Real - The Atlantic
hip-hop lyrics. The site grew steadily until 2012, when a $15 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz, seen as kingmakers in the tech world, made it an instant media curiosity.The site’s exegeses even attracted the attention of rappers — like Nas, now an investor in the company — who added comments on their own songs. Rap Genius’s founders, who said they hoped their site and its thousands of
Pop Music Critic Leaves The New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics for a Start-Up - NYTimes.com