Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the world. It is also the most publicized and capitalized on in the United States. Pakistan has the highest percentage of both breast cancer patients and deaths caused by this disease annually in Asia. While the disease has the same symptoms for patients in the U.S. and […]

“There is the ‘fight’ or ‘crusade’ against cancer; cancer is the killer disease; people who have cancer are ‘cancer victims.’” – Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor “While many doctors speak of themselves as “problem-solvers” or as “working out puzzles,”, some use a more vivid metaphor, likening themselves to “detectives,” thereby picking up on the […]

Although “normalcy” has been an idea that has existed for centuries, dating back to when eurocentric ideas of beauty took over the initial Greek ideas of idealism, social media and the access to photography and photo-editing has emphasized the negative connotation of the idea of “normal” and “ideal”. In today’s age, it is close to […]

An American Muslim Dear Attacker, People say it’s 2019 and that we’ve gotten to a point in society where anyone should be comfortable expressing who they are. So why is it that being Muslim, something that I was once so proud of and valued so much, scares me more than anything? People say that America […]

The idea of “Narrative Medicine” was one that confused me when it was first introduced to us. It seemed as though the program was simply trying to make everything about medicine, whether it actually connected or not. What was narrative medicine? I had never heard of it and I was ready to have to take […]