{"id":1583,"date":"2016-12-29T08:16:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T12:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2017-02-03T12:08:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T16:08:48","slug":"new-year-wishes-2016-blog-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/new-year-wishes-2016-blog-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year Wishes, 2016 Blog Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wishing all of our readers and supporters a new year blessed with good health, fulfillment, and joy. Thank you to all of those toiling as healthcare workers and defending the right of\u00a0the pursuit of health for all. May this year be filled with teamwork and \u00a0innovation within medicine all towards the goal of\u00a0alleviating human suffering and illness.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the MSPress continued to enrich medical student dialogue with our various publications. <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are my favorite blog pieces from 2016:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/the-doctor-as-the-advocate\/\">The Doctor as the Advocate<\/a> by Gunjan Sharma<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/meaningful-community-involvement\/\">Meaningful Community Involvement<\/a> by Roy Collins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/the-policy-on-policy-why-medical-students-need-to-learn-about-healthcare\/\">The Policy on Policy: Why Medical Students Need to Learn About Healthcare<\/a> by Leigh Goodrich<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/thank-you-for-being-a-patient-a-reflection-on-gratitude-and-its-place-in-medicine\/\">Thank You for Being a Patient: A Reflection on Gratitude and Its Place in Medicine<\/a> by Jordan Metsky<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/frankenstein-a-tale-for-the-modern-age\/\">Frankenstein: A Tale for the Modern Age<\/a> by Gunjan Sharma<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/storytelling-and-patient-advocacy\/\">Storytelling and Patient Advocacy<\/a> by Ashley Franklin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/a-farewell-to-oliver-sacks\/\">A Farewell to Oliver Sacks<\/a> by Josip Borovac<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Other highlights include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/index.php\/journal\/issue\/view\/14\">The MSPress Journal, Vol 3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Free Clinic Research Collective, Vol 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/index.php\/commencement\/issue\/view\/15\"><strong>The Medical Commencement Archive, Vol 3<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a final plug, remember that the deadline to submit application to join the executive MSPress board is Jan 30th.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wishing all of our readers and supporters a new year blessed with good health, fulfillment, and joy. Thank you to all of those toiling as healthcare workers and defending the right of\u00a0the pursuit of health for all. May this year be filled with teamwork and \u00a0innovation within medicine all towards the goal of\u00a0alleviating human suffering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}