Aspiring Docs Diaries

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Oct 19, 2016

Still Waiting for Someone to Pinch Me

Slavena Salve Nissan

Photo courtesy of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. This year’s White Coat Ceremony at Mount Sinai took […] Read More

Oct 11, 2016

Autonomy of a Different Kind

Stefan Kale Wheat

“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, […] Read More

Oct 3, 2016

Of Surgery and The Robot

Ogochukwu Ezeoke

My eyes shone and I could feel the grin spreading across my face as the robot sprang to life, its […] Read More

Sep 26, 2016

Time for Myself

Arianna Yanes

Medicine is about serving others. It’s about developing a set of skills and knowledge and combining them with compassion to […] Read More

Sep 19, 2016

Stay Kind

Andrew Cruz

Perhaps the most resilient quality you can retain, as you progress through medical training, is to remain kind. During my […] Read More

Sep 12, 2016

In Defense of Doing “Nothing”

Tejasvi Gowda

During the fall of 2015 I was finishing up my last semester of college. The arduous medical school application process […] Read More

Sep 6, 2016

Little Girl Blue

Brienne Ryan

She lay there, small and seemingly lifeless. Everything surrounding her is industrial—wires and tubes connecting this way and that—paralleling the […] Read More

Aug 29, 2016

Undifferentiated

Jessica Prescott

It was midway through the semester, and as medical students, we were well aware of the allure of a free […] Read More

Aug 25, 2016

Pre-meds & Policy: An Essential Relationship

Suhas Gondi

As a pre-medical student, my academic and extracurricular pursuits have often felt pre-determined. I enroll in science classes to fulfill […] Read More

Aug 22, 2016

Burnout: A Hidden Epidemic

Jessica Turner

At 27 years old, I look around at my non-medical friends with envy at times. They have paying jobs, financial […] Read More