Shireen Magedin
Storyteller
Shireen Magedin is a practicing pediatrician and a storyteller of tales in an ancient land.
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“To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.” ~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The Irish Connection I was excited to travel to Ireland. My admission to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons...
How Do You Deal with Excessive Crying? “Opium, The Poor Child’s Nurse” from an 1849 issue of British humour magazine Punch. Source: HarpWeek.
Another one of Dr. Sarah's Adventures: Opium has had a chequered history down the ages. But did you know that it was...
The Colors of Love
“The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open...
Great things never come from comfort zones.
I would like to tell you an anecdote about my final surgical oral exam. I had a unique patient. While he was...
Spirits and Bones
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi College life was fun....
The Masjid: “Exams test your memory; life tests your learning; others will test your patience.” ~ Fennel Hudson, A Writer’s Year – Fennel’s Journal – No. 3
As the years passed by, the gardens in the college became lusher and even more beautiful. Especially the trees that...
The Wonder of Childbirth: “My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.” ~ William Blake
Another day in the life of Sarah the Medical Student: The miracle of birth is wonderful, that’s the only word...
“If all the eccentricities and all the strangeness in this world suddenly disappear, people will fall asleep from the boredom! Every kind of oddities make life more interesting, less boring!” ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
Narrated by Dr. Sarah Shah: Besides learning about run of the mill cases in medical college, it was exciting to see...
Proud to be a Policewoman: Inspector Tanya
As Narrated by Inspector Tanya: Even though we are now well into the 21st century the inclusion of women in the...
To Frog or not to Frog… That is a Question!
Narrated by Dr. Sarah Shah while in her second year of medical college: Anatomy is not the only subject taught in the...
Review of “Lifelines” by Bestselling author Taylor Rickard.
"In a land saturated with millennia of history and the burden of very conservative social and religious views, two...
“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” ― Erol Ozan
My Austrian grandmother, on my mother's side loved me to bits. I was her first grandchild and obviously could do no...
