Shireen Magedin
Storyteller
Shireen Magedin is a practicing pediatrician and a storyteller of tales in an ancient land.
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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...
Inspector Tanya wanted to be interviewed as well!
Inspector Tanya visited me last night and was quite annoyed with me. She wanted to know why only Sarah was interviewed...
An Interview with Dr. Sarah
I was just thinking today, imagine if someone interviewed Dr. Sarah Shah, the main character of Lifelines, what would...
How Would you Classify a Medical Student?
When I wrote Lifelines I dug deep into the psyche of a medical student who transitions later on to be a new doctor....
