My First Week as a Healthcare Assistant
*I recommend reading this blog post before this one to know more about the role of a HCA and why I became one!* TW: death In this blog post I…
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April 11, 2021
Applying to be a Healthcare Assistant
Hey! I am very aware that I have been inactive on my blog, I'm sorry! So far in my gap year, I have worked as a Sales Assistant in a…
April 8, 2021
“Soy Causes Breast Cancer” & Other Lies
The humble soybean gets too much of a bad rep. Because of its isoflavone (I’ll explain what that is later) content, many believe that soy disrupts hormone balances in humans…
August 13, 2020
Antibiotic Resistance & Animal Agriculture
As of today, 633,000 deaths have been deemed as a result of a COVID-19 infection. Antibiotic resistance poses a much larger threat, with experts predicting will kill 10 million people…
July 24, 2020
Medical Related EPQ: how to choose your topic
What's an EPQ? For those who don't know, an EPQ stands for Extended Project Qualification and is offered to many students around sixth form time. It is a research based…
July 7, 2020
Vitamin B12 & Vegan Diets
One of the main arguments against vegan diets is that they do not provide vitamin B12, and so cannot be a nutritionally complete or healthful diet. In this blog post…
June 30, 2020
The Gender Data Gap in Medicine & Healthcare
“For millennia, medicine has functioned on the assumption that male bodies can represent humanity as a whole,” says Criado Perez. “As a result, we have a huge historical data gap…
June 22, 2020
My UCAT Experience & My Advice
What's the UCAT? For those who do not know, to apply to study a medicine/dentistry degree at a UK university you have to sit one or two entrance exams. Most…
June 17, 2020
Gap Year Before Medical School? COVID-19 and My Gap Year Dilemma
Ever since I had to start thinking about university, I always considered the idea of having a gap year. The thought of stepping off the conveyor belt we all know…
June 15, 2020
Racism in Healthcare
Since the brutal killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests being aired worldwide, I have had a lot of revolutionary awakenings. I, along with many other white…
June 11, 2020