Aspiring Docs Diaries
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Welcome Home, Class of 2018. Thoughts and Advice from Second Year Students
Originally posted UVM Medicine Find time to be humbled by what you’re learning. Every week. When you can’t memorize any […] Read More
On Fear, Mountains, Humility, and Starting Medical School
Originally posted in UVM Medicine “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total […] Read More
Freefall – Applying to Medical School
For my eighteenth birthday, my sister bought me a voucher to go skydiving. I remember sitting in the tiny airplane […] Read More
Shortness of Breath, Again
On a typically balmy autumn afternoon in Baltimore City, Mr. S could barely breathe. Throughout the prior week, he had […] Read More
MD, HB: Medical Doctor, Human Being
I was spending the day in the Emergency Department of a community hospital. Though it was a small department with […] Read More
Summer Research and Reflection
It has only been two weeks. Two days. Okay, more like two mornings. And yet, on a Friday night, I […] Read More
Changing Your Mind
For most of my life I wanted to be a journalist. Eager to have an impact on the world and […] Read More
Keep Your Hands Up
The day before I left for my six-week solo backpacking trip across Europe, my beloved, 80 year old German piano […] Read More
Third Year Starting Line
We’ve all heard the jokes or warnings to not get sick during July because that is when the new doctors […] Read More
Medical School Dreams Come True for Undocumented Students and their Families – Three Perspectives
Medical School Perspective In October of 2012, Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine became the first medical school in […] Read More