Colleen FarrellFourth year student at Harvard Medical SchoolPosts by Colleen FarrellBioethics Forum EssayA Body With Bullet Holes and the Right to Arm OurselvesAt the end of an otherwise quiet night, we were paged to the emergency department for a stat trauma. A man with multiple gunshot wounds was wheeled by paramedics into...Read A Body With Bullet Holes and the Right to Arm OurselvesBioethics Forum EssayWhen Words Matter: Medical Education and the Care of Transgender PatientsI was only there to learn how to place IV lines. But as my anesthesia attending and I gathered our needles, tourniquet, and gauze, I noticed that our patient, whom...Read When Words Matter: Medical Education and the Care of Transgender PatientsBioethics Forum EssayLearning to Talk Like a DoctorThree years before beginning medical school, I got off a bus in Granada, Spain and met the family I would be living with for four months. My host parents, Carmen...Read Learning to Talk Like a DoctorBioethics Forum EssayUnexpected Lessons from the Anatomy LabWe put on navy blue scrubs, plastic aprons, goggles, and gloves and walked into the anatomical dissection rooms for the first time.Three other first-year medical students and I gathered around...Read Unexpected Lessons from the Anatomy LabBioethics Forum EssayIf We’re Going to Talk About My Reproductive Future . . .When I tell people I’m going to medical school, it’s often not long until the conversation starts moving toward when and how I will have children. When I was 14...Read If We’re Going to Talk About My Reproductive Future . . .Bioethics Forum EssayPink Ribbons, Wire Hangers, and the Politics of Women’s Health“Pink is the new wire hanger.” In the flurry of tweets that followed in the wake of the debacle between Susan G. Komen for the Cure and Planned Parenthood, this one was...Read Pink Ribbons, Wire Hangers, and the Politics of Women’s Health
