Aspiring Docs Diaries
All Stories
Comparison is the Thief of Joy
Once you’ve decided to embark on the journey to medical school, it’s only natural to be curious about what other […] Read More
Letter to a Future Doctor
Dear Future Doctor, Please remember. Remember what it feels like to be a patient. Remember the pain, remember the anguish […] Read More
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