🔬📸While microphotography is part of daily #pathology practice, an artistic eye can reveal funny images from everyday life!
🗣️I named this one “Politician”, from inflamed gallbladder mucosa.
Prof. Ales Ryska, MD, PhD, Czechia, Past ESP President
#EveryDayPathology#PathArt
She made history in mathematics — but math wasn’t even her first love.
Born in Iran, Maryam Mirzakhani actually wanted to be a writer. But when she discovered the world of mathematical problem-solving, she never looked back.
She won back-to-back gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad, making history as the first Iranian woman to do so.
Her work in geometry and topology reshaped how we understand curved spaces, unlocking secrets of the mathematical universe.
In 2014, she became the first woman ever to win the Fields Medal — the highest honor in mathematics.
A true pioneer, gone too soon at just 40, her legacy continues to inspire generations of women in STEM.
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer.
One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live.
When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity – the brain – and finally into a patient and a new father.
What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when when life is catastrophically interrupted?
What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away?
Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all.
When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both
Back to painting after a hiatus🎨
Path Yin Yang — depicting colonic morphology on H&E alongside corresponding features under fluorescent immunofluorescence.
#PathArt#pathology#medillustration#MedTwitter
A Persian dagger from the 1800s that’s capable of penetrating chainmail armour.
With a horse handle made of lapis lazuli gemstone.
📍Al Sabah Collection, Kuwait
Left side is a human lung. Right side is a tree.
The tree breathes in what the lung breathes out. The lung breathes in what the tree breathes out.
God's design is incredible.