Aspiring Docs Diaries
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Family First
Becoming a doctor is HUGE for a boy growing up in a Russian family – far more impressive than even […] Read More
De-Mystifying the Grey
“There’s no such thing as all or always, for everything there is an exception,” said Dr. Jerrold Teitcher, Director of […] Read More
Still Waiting for Someone to Pinch Me
Photo courtesy of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. This year’s White Coat Ceremony at Mount Sinai took […] Read More
Autonomy of a Different Kind
“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, […] Read More
Of Surgery and The Robot
My eyes shone and I could feel the grin spreading across my face as the robot sprang to life, its […] Read More
Time for Myself
Medicine is about serving others. It’s about developing a set of skills and knowledge and combining them with compassion to […] Read More
In Defense of Doing “Nothing”
During the fall of 2015 I was finishing up my last semester of college. The arduous medical school application process […] Read More
Little Girl Blue
She lay there, small and seemingly lifeless. Everything surrounding her is industrial—wires and tubes connecting this way and that—paralleling the […] Read More
Undifferentiated
It was midway through the semester, and as medical students, we were well aware of the allure of a free […] Read More