Notes on
being human

A field journal by Dr. Rizwan Ali Awan

Between certainty
and wonder.

Making sense of life and death, faith and science, medicine and the mind—along with human emotion, evolution, and the intelligence we are creating.

01Life & death
02Faith & science
03Mind & emotion
04Medicine
05Evolution
06Artificial intelligence

The observer

A physician shaped by different worlds.

Dr. Rizwan Ali Awan is a physician currently in the United States. His professional journey has crossed Pakistan, England, and Scotland, followed by a fellowship in Geriatric Medicine in the United States.

He holds MBBS, MCPS, MRCP(UK), and the Specialty Certificate Examination in Endocrinology and Diabetes (UK). This journal is not a catalogue of credentials, but a record of the questions that medicine and life leave behind.