In the distant days when I was still a med student (last year) a surgeon of extraordinary skills and questionable morals gave me a piece of advice after I told him about my taste for General Surgery as

En la lejana época en la que aún era estudiante de Medicina (el año pasado) un cirujano de excelentes habilidades y cuestionable base moral me dio un consejo al comentarle sobre mi gusto por la Cirugía

We are all capable of doing something that many of our friends cannot: roll our tongues, move our ears, tell apart "there” from “their” and “they’re”, and although we agree that all these skills are

Todos somos capaces de hacer una que otra cosa que muchos de nuestros amigos no pueden: enrollar la lengua, mover las orejas, diferenciar “ahí” de “hay” y “ay”, y si bien concordamos en que todas estas

Adolescence: that beautiful time in our lives in which we forge our personality and character, or at least we think we do, while we toil and suffer in that no-man's-land between childhood and adulthood,

La adolescencia: esa hermosa etapa en la que forjamos nuestra personalidad y carácter, o al menos creemos hacerlo mientras sufrimos incesantemente en la sombría tierra de nadie entre la niñez y adultez,

We all have vices. This is not necessarily bad; A vice can be something as positive as studying or reading, or as harmless as watching movies. Unfortunately, it is true that many incur in more harmful

Todos tenemos vicios. Esto no es necesariamente malo; un vicio puede ser algo tan positivo como el estudio o la lectura, o tan inofensivo como ver películas. Desafortunadamente, es cierto que muchos incurren

One of the many things that set us apart from the other living beings is our habit of keeping records, usually written, of our own history. Our species is quite unique in this regard, while it is true

Una de las tantas cosas que nos diferencian de los demás seres vivientes es nuestra costumbre de llevar récords, usualmente escritos, de nuestra propia historia. Nuestra especie es bastante única en este

Shaving: that ritual in which we all partake and which has so many similarities with life itself, consisting of an eternal fight against cold, indifferent and apparently insurmountable forces, beyond our

Afeitarse: ese ritual en el que todos participamos y que guarda tantas similitudes con la vida misma, consistiendo en una eterna lucha contra fuerzas frías, indiferentes y aparentemente insuperables, fuera

I think I have made my rejection of most herbal medicines quite clear in a few of my previous posts, as their alleged effects are rarely supported by evidence, or sometimes even by logic. There have been

The pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2, better known by its stage name of Coronavirus (which, since it is only one of several fairly common types of coronavirus, is as unspecific as entering a restaurant

La pandemia causada por el SARS-CoV-2, mejor conocido por su nombre artístico de Coronavirus (el cual, sabiendo que es sólo uno de varios tipos bastante comunes de coronavirus existentes, es tan poco

We can all agree that a breakup is one of the most stressful moments that we have all surely experienced. Some may go to extremes such as calling their ex 14 times in the early morning hours and then leaving

Todos podemos estar de acuerdo en que una ruptura sentimental es uno de los momentos más estresantes que seguramente todos hemos experimentado. Algunos pueden llegar a extremos tales como llamar a su ex

There is a period in all of our lives in which we believe in magic. Normally it is during our childhood, when we are full of innocence and our eyes glimmer when hearing about Santa Claus, or the Tooth

Todos tenemos un período en nuestras vidas en el que creemos en la magia. Normalmente es durante la infancia, cuando estamos llenos de inocencia y nuestros ojos brillan al oír sobre San Nicolás, o el Ratón