Gap year, Week 31
August 7, 2024
…it felt like a request to join the US synchronized swimming team for a few minutes in the deep end. I’m holding my breath. … More Gap year, Week 31
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Gap Year, Week 29
July 24, 2024
Thank you for taking a quick look at my Gap Year blog, the inside account of my peregrinations between 2023 and 2025, spanning a former life primarily focused on medicine and a future life of letters. Peregrination! Interesting word, coined in the 15th century: a journey, a pilgrimage, a wandering. Still, I can’t help but … More Gap Year, Week 29
Gap Year | Week 9
March 4, 2024
Truth is stranger than fiction. You can see here a beard (me) in a hooded sweatshirt. What is probably true is that it is my Hamilton College lacrosse sweatshirt, last worn in 1979, then saved in several generations of cardboard boxes and moved from Clinton to Baltimore to Boston to Bethesda, Tacoma, Seoul, Vienna (VA), … More Gap Year | Week 9
Scott D. McLean, MD 