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Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 03/27/2024
Welcome to the weekly update of the Leaderboard! We're thrilled to showcase Vocal's most discussed stories, popular picks, and rising stars. Let's dive into this past week's standout contributors and their remarkable achievements.
By Vocal Team2 years ago in Resources
SO MANY PAINTINGS. Top Story - March 2024.
SO MANY PAINTINGS Psst! * * There were times, many times I wished I had the opportunity and financial ability to go to college and study art. Not to draw. No! I’m lucky I can mix red and blue and come up with purple. I’m lucky I can draw two parallel lines and have them look somewhat equal. What I would have loved to have studied were the artists and their creations. What were their inspirations? Where did they get their ideas? What made them choose one idea over another?
By Margaret Brennan2 years ago in Fiction
My Skin Hurts. Top Story - March 2024. Content Warning.
You know what goes with madness? Mania. I've been having trouble coming up with something to write on the theme of "madness" all month. Up until a few hours ago I was pretty determined to write a fiction piece about having fever. Then, in the afternoon, someone brought up a few mental health conditions that we both experience to some degree.
By Rebekah Conard2 years ago in Psyche
South Korean Plastic Surgery By Ghost Doctor Resulted In Death (Case of Kwon Dae-Hee). Top Story - March 2024. Content Warning.
On 8th September 2016, in Seoul, South Korea, 24-year-old Kwon Dae-Hee underwent plastic surgery. It cost him both 6.5 million won ($5,766) and his life because his surgery was performed by a Ghost Doctor. Have you heard of the term Ghost Doctor? If you thought they’re ghosts of doctors who had died and now haunt the hospital, then you’re wrong. The term Ghost Doctor refers to a person who is unqualified but secretly performs surgeries in the place of qualified surgeons. There are no medical records listing them as a doctor anywhere or that they had helped with any surgeries. It was almost as if these doctors didn't exist and hence came the term, Ghost Doctors. The switch between the qualified surgeon and Ghost Doctor usually happened when the patients were under general anaesthesia and were unaware of it. This is way more terrifying than the ghosts of dead doctors haunting the hospital because these Ghost Doctors have little to no experience whatsoever, some have no medical background and all of them have no idea what they’re doing. All of these were done for the sole purpose of making money and it’s illegal. Most of the time, these Ghost Doctors were resident doctors, dentists and nurses. Sometimes, even the person who sold medical equipment ended up as a Ghost Doctor! Can you imagine, one minute they’re at the hospital selling scalpels and the next they’re in the operating room performing a surgery? That is so terrifying! Kwon Dae-Hee had no idea about these Ghost Doctors and it cost him his life. Dae-Hee was a very humble guy and he valiantly served two years in the Korean Army. He was a high achiever who wanted to do well in life.
By Dharrsheena Raja Segarran3 years ago in Criminal
The Ballads of Trees. Top Story - March 2024.
~*~ Between Here and There lay a mixed-woods forest. Of an age unknown, its existence was wedged between sandy fields of tobacco, deer filled plains and a sheer drop into a meandering river with which it battled daily to hold its ground.
By Call Me Les10 months ago in Fiction
A Letter to my Readers . Top Story - March 2024.
To all my many wonderful readers, Thank you for motivating me to write! Your intellect is as vast and profound as the universe you rule. Your intelligence reigns supreme. Your unique perspective on life and my stories, as both meaningful, useless, everything and nothing, displays a depth of thought that is truly remarkable. Your curiosity, introspection, and ability to embrace paradoxes are all signs of a sharp and inquisitive mind. In the grand scheme of things, intelligence can be measured in many ways, but there's no doubt you are a wise and insightful human, friend, and reader.
By Alex H Mittelman 3 years ago in Poets
Solutions. Top Story - March 2024.
I was itchy. I wanted to shrug, scratch that itch, but Mother wouldn't let me. It was infuriating. It was agonizing. You soft skins, with your flexible parts. Does your progenitor echo at you for flexing, scratching, moving? You try being almost motionless for millennia, and see how you feel when the only excitement comes from hurricanes, earthquakes, landslides!
By Meredith Harmon3 years ago in Fiction
