The Medical Trench
From the frontlines of medicine
Voices from the frontlines of medicine
By doctors and medical students, for everyone
Essays and Research
By Aparajeya Shanker
The Medical Trench will be an avenue for discussing essays and research in medicine. If you wish to contribute, please feel free to contact us.
Presentation Archive
By Aparajeya Shanker
This section contains an archive of all my presentation slides from my lectures

Words to ponder over
If you need inspiration, look towards history
Rene Leriche
“Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray”
Hippocrates
“Life so short, the craft so long to learn”
Richard Selzer
“You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person’s spirit from his body”