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Taxi Driver was released on 8 Feb. 1976.

Writer Paul Schrader stated his influences and inspiration for the film:

“Before I sat down to write Taxi Driver, I reread Sartre’s Nausea, because I saw the script as an attempt to take the European existential hero, that is, the man from The Stranger [Camus], Notes from the Underground [Dostoevsky], Nausea, Pickpocket [Bresson], Le Feu Follet [Malle], and A Man Escaped [Bresson], and put him in an American context. In so doing, you find that he becomes more ignorant, ignorant of the nature of his problem.

“Travis’s problem is the same as the existential hero’s, that is, should I exist? But Travis doesn’t understand that this is his problem, so he focuses it elsewhere: and I think that is a mark of the immaturity and the youngness of our country. We don’t properly understand the nature of the problem, so the self-destructive impulse, instead of being inner-directed, as it is in Japan, Europe, any of the older cultures, becomes outer-directed. The man who feels the time has come to die will go out and kill other people rather than kill himself.

“There’s a line in Yakuza which says, “When a Japanese cracks up, he’ll close the window and kill himself; when an American cracks up, he’ll open the window and kill somebody else.” That’s essentially how the existential hero changes when he becomes American. There is not enough intellectual tradition in this country, and not enough history; and Travis is just not smart enough to understand his problem. He should be killing himself instead of these other people.”

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For yourself, medicine student.

Remember that you are not defined by a number. You are defined by what you have overcome and what you are enduring. A grade is not important, if you have not learned for your patients. You will treat people, not exams. Learn for them and study for them. They need the best out of you.

When and if you are tired, you are allowed to take a break, whether it be at 10 pm when you dont want to open that cardiology book, at 2 pm when class was difficult to understand or at 4 am when you are running tests on a patient. Take a moment to breathe, and go back to giving your all.

Do not compare yourself to other people or students, you are you and you are amazing. Do not diminish all that you do and all that you have done, because I have seen you work hard. Your only competition is yourself, you are working hard to become a better you.

Remember the reasons why you chose this path and why you started in the first place. I risk to say that beyond choosing this carreer because of the great challenge that it implied, you chose Medicine because of your desire to help another in need and your neverending fascination. with the human body and its art.

Continue working slowly but steadily. Love what you do. Give your best always.

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Scientists as fighting game characters

Science Combat is a series of GIFs that transforms legendary scientists into fighting game characters, with special moves inspired by their discoveries and inventions. It was designed by the Brazilian illustrator Diego Sanches for Superinteressante magazine. Here are my favourites:

Nikola Tesla and teleforce

Pythagoras and tetractys

Isaac Newton and Opticks

Charles Darwin and evolution

Marie Curie and polonium 

Albert Einstein and relativity

Stephen Hawking and wormholes  

See all of them here

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Critical Med Student Skill:

Figuring out where to stand in a small exam room so as not to be in the way of the physician, the patient, the patient’s husband, the patient’s 5 adult children, their neighbor, and their pet turtle.

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How to build a human!

Eleanor Lutz is a designer with a molecular biology degree and she made this amazing science infographic about embryogenesis.

Embryogenesis is the process by which the embryo forms and develops. It starts with the fertilization of the egg cell (ovum) by a sperm cell, (spermatozoon). Once fertilized, the ovum is referred to as a zygote, a single diploid cell. The zygote undergoes mitotic divisions with no significant growth (a process known as cleavage) and cellular differentiation, leading to development of a multicellular embryo.

(Source).

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Please help

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The kiss

#thekiss #gustav klimt

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Tom, please stop or one day I will kidnap you..

Tom reading ‘May I feel By E. E. Cummings’ :)

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#Harrison #medstudent #medicine

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Ba-dum-pum, tsss.

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Well i was just bored 😬

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Hey even m from nagpur doing mbbs can i have ur kik ? Can we be frds ?

Wow!!

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Time has told me You’re a rare rare find A troubled cure For a troubled mind. And time has told me Not to ask for more For some day our ocean Will find its shore

Nick Drake (via 365-goodbyes)

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”if u like someone just tell them!!” yeah sure goodbye

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This was one of the best day of my life cant hide :))

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