Aspiring Docs Diaries

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Jul 15, 2015

Hold On to What Makes You Whole

Sarah Mongiello Bernstein

Blackness covers the paper in its entirety. Hunched over, charcoal stained fingertips splayed out in front of me, I exhale […] Read More

Jul 13, 2015

The only one holding me back… was me.

Olivia Lacny

I had been a humanities lover my entire life. Prior to college, I had planned on majoring in French or […] Read More

Jul 6, 2015

Bleary-eyed Rounds

Ogochukwu Ezeoke

“Is he out of bed today?” The nurse practitioner – NP for short – shook her head with a something […] Read More

Jun 29, 2015

Catching Up

Susan Alsharif

Anyone aspiring to become a doctor, or who’s close to an aspiring doctor, knows that it takes a lot of […] Read More

Jun 24, 2015

Perspectives on the End Stages of Life

Dharam Persaud-Sharma

In a way, many of us are searching for the same thing: Who are we, where do we come from […] Read More

Jun 18, 2015

Studying for Step 1

Tehreem Rehman

I don’t think I have ever studied this hard for an exam before. I thought that as soon as the […] Read More

Jun 15, 2015

The Code

Ogochukwu Ezeoke

I woke up that morning to loud quacking, the sound of my alarm clock. It was 5:30AM on a Saturday […] Read More

Jun 1, 2015

An Undocumented Student’s Road to Medicine

Seung Jin Lee

I vaguely remember a night in Seoul, South Korea in June of 1998; I was born there seven years earlier. […] Read More

May 28, 2015

Imprinted on the Heart

Tee Griscom

To a young man, I left school after morning classes were finished and arrived home expecting to take a short […] Read More

May 20, 2015

66 laps (plus a little extra)

Originally published in the USC School of Medicine Greenville blog Transforming Medical School Stroll the halls of USC SOMG and […] Read More