Aspiring Docs Diaries
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Patience Makes Perfect: Turning Med School Rejection into a Success Story
I’m pretty open about the fact that I was not accepted to any medical school the first time I applied […] Read More
On Becoming A Doctor: Facing COVID-19
It was almost ten months into intern year of residency and I was on my second block on the General […] Read More
Prioritizing Wellness in the Whirlwind of COVID-19
In the midst of COVID-19, our communities have been stricken with a virus that has changed the landscape for how […] Read More
A Note of Encouragement to Reapplicants
Oftentimes, I peruse premedical forums and come across these questions: “Should I even reapply, doesn’t that look bad? Should I […] Read More
A Patient’s Whole
Dear Ms. B, I’m not sure if you remember the medical student who came in every morning at 6:30am for […] Read More
Becoming (And Staying) Human
It’s funny how strictly we label each phase of our medical training. We carefully divide and demarcate each stage: premed, […] Read More
Dear Me at 18
It’s 2011, and you’re in the first few weeks of college. You’ve just had this wonderfully lazy last summer of […] Read More
Letter to My First-Year-Self: Reflections on my Medical School Journey
It’s been a few months since the medical school year started anew. For the first year students, the #FirstDayofSchool selfies […] Read More
Humanism in Medicine
When did it become okay to look the other way, cut corners or treat people like a commodity? Never in […] Read More
The Day I Met Empathy
It was a hot summer day as usual, and I was studying for the USMLE Step 1, (The United States […] Read More