About me
Hi, I’m Marina Kojic a third-year medical student and research assistant at the Medical University of Vienna at the department of paediatric immunology.
I live and study in Vienna and have two lovely cats who help me get through long nights of studying.
From an early age on I loved to write stories and discovered my passion for science and as my first attempt to build a rocket from an electrical tooth brush didn’t work I decided to focus on something more “down-to-the-earth”: the human body.
As I still enjoy creative writing you will find some of my texts here as well – most of them in German.
About Medsplained
Explaining the mysteries of the human body
The idea
Since I started Med-School more and more people came forward to me and pointed out their doubts in doctors, pharmaceuticals and/or pharma companies.
In most cases that was because people:
- Don’t have the time to do in depth research
- Don’t have the tools/knowledge to break down medical/pharmacological information on their own
- Didn’t feel well enough informed by their physicians
So I decided to answer your questions regarding your amazing, mysterious human body and how it works and how we can influence it.
How does it work
Send me your questions via E-Mail. I will answer one question at a time in form of an essay or video. I will do research and try to summarize as best I can – without guaranteeing completeness of contents.
Please keep in mind that I will neither answer questions about personal symptoms nor give any medical advice.
What kind of questions?
Here are some examples of question I’d love to answer:
- Why do I have a hangover after taking sleeping pills?
- Where do Antibiotics come from?
- I heard bananas cause cancer – is there any research regarding that?
- How does Aspirin work?
- I heard about this baby in the news that was made from three different people? How was that possible (+ link or photo of the article)
- What stages does a pharmaceutical have to go through to get approved? Who approves pharmaceuticals?
- How do we know vaccines work?