Aspiring Docs Diaries
All Stories
A Work in Progress
My second rotation as a third year medical student was internal medicine. Unlike my first clerkship, family medicine, internal medicine […] Read More
The Physician’s Pen
Becoming a medical scribe for an Emergency Physician has taught me more about medicine, about passion, and most importantly about […] Read More
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