Aspiring Docs Diaries
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What Plays the Primary Role in Health Outcomes?
“It’s funny how you switched careers. You went to medical school but now you’re doing public health,” one of my […] Read More
On electronic medical records and my path to medicine
Imagine one day that you turn on your smartphone or computer, and a completely new operating system has been installed. […] Read More
Double Vision
I clutched a little nervously at my sleeves, exchanging frequent glances with the other student as we waited for the […] Read More
From Bedside to Post-it Note
For some physicians, at what point in their career does a transition occur from considering their participation in patient care […] Read More
The Calm Before the Storm
The summer before medical school is generally regarded as the last time of true freedom for doctors-to-be. We are supposed […] Read More
We Are F-A-M-I-L-Y
Walking out of that room, I realized that there is more to the word “family” than I had thought. Read More
Hold On to What Makes You Whole
Blackness covers the paper in its entirety. Hunched over, charcoal stained fingertips splayed out in front of me, I exhale […] Read More
The only one holding me back… was me.
I had been a humanities lover my entire life. Prior to college, I had planned on majoring in French or […] Read More
Bleary-eyed Rounds
“Is he out of bed today?” The nurse practitioner – NP for short – shook her head with a something […] Read More
Catching Up
Anyone aspiring to become a doctor, or who’s close to an aspiring doctor, knows that it takes a lot of […] Read More