being human
A field journal by Dr. Rizwan Ali Awan
Between certainty
and wonder.
Reflections on life and death, faith and science, medicine and the mind, emotion, evolution, and artificial intelligence.
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The Burden of Knowing Better
Perhaps the most unsettling discoveries are those that leave us wondering whether ignorance was ever a disadvantage.
I remind myself, I am alive
Some places do not help us escape life; they return us to it.
A Call from the Future
Perhaps regret is a call from the future, answered too late.
Who Taught You to Be You?
Had you been raised by different people, in a different world, would you still be you?
Perhaps Intelligence Was Never the Point
What makes you so special?
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.