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The special 5% that we are

Hella!
This is my transformation week I'd say. My outlook towards life , studies and friendship has gone imaginable yet drastic transformation . From a clueless writer to a *I must know this * kind of a detective .
So , in this blog I am going to transmit my love for medicine to my readers. Who I know already love the subject extensively. 

The human body is frustratingly ( yet beautifully ) complex and I get to spend my  life learning about it. Lucky lass that I have been by the grace of almighty so far . While the amount that I am expected to know about it can be overwhelming at times (and by times I mean always), I am incredibly fortunate to be living in a time when we know as much as we do. Can you believe that there was a time that we didn’t know how the heart, lungs, or kidneys worked? When a teenager vomiting was a taboo because people thought she was pregnant? A time when we didn’t realize that something as simple as washing hands would decrease spread of infectious disease particularly in hospital settings? Sure, we have a long way to go, but we’ve already come such a far way like the special 5% of the country ( just a guess , may be less than 5 %) . O my mighty , this is so flattering! 
So far so much!

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