Aspiring Docs Diaries
All Stories
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
Pre-meds & Policy: An Essential Relationship
As a pre-medical student, my academic and extracurricular pursuits have often felt pre-determined. I enroll in science classes to fulfill […] Read More
Burnout: A Hidden Epidemic
At 27 years old, I look around at my non-medical friends with envy at times. They have paying jobs, financial […] Read More