Berina Škrijelj
Berina Škrijelj is a physician and resident in maxillofacial surgery whose work connects clinical medicine, education, youth engagement, and community work. She is particularly interested in patient dignity, equitable access to healthcare, medical ethics, and the ways communication and institutions shape the experience of care. Alongside medicine, she works with photography and visual storytelling as another way of understanding people, places, and social experiences.
Author stories
Twenty Minutes of Being Human
What happens when strangers stop seeing one another as political categories, profiles and members of the “other side” for twenty minutes and simply dance together? A Berlin street performance opens a much larger question: how much do societies need spaces where people can simply be together without arguing, buying or needing an enemy?
We Worked While Sick to Reach Retirement. Then We Search for the Elixir of Youth
For years, going to work despite illness has been presented as responsibility and dedication. But the body does not recognise years of service, and retirement cannot restore the health, energy and years we spent waiting for life to begin later.
The White Coat and “Animal Farm”: Who Cares for Those Who Care for Us?
Doctors spend every day asking others how they are, while their own exhaustion, illness and emotional burden often remain unspoken. Through personal experience and Orwell’s Boxer, the article asks how long self-sacrifice can be treated as a professional virtue before it becomes a burden for the person inside the white coat.
Stay Quiet, It Has Always Been This Way: How the Exploitation of Young Doctors Became the Rule
Medicine is still presented to young people as a calling, while the system expects them to stay quiet, work without security and wait for dignity as if it were a reward.