Aspiring Docs Diaries
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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
Fears About Medical School
Medical school is one of those conversational references for comparison in tough situations: “Don’t be complaining about that tough client, […] Read More
The Match Gods
Match week is possibly the most emotionally exhausting weeks in all of medical school, beating out waiting for board scores, […] Read More
Events Overnight – Five Days Old
“How are things on Red Team?” “Everyone’s doing okay so far!” I laugh before adding, “I’m not using the Q […] Read More
What I Learned from My Illness
As a pre-med student, there have been times when I have found it difficult to relate to patients. I have […] Read More
Prognosis: Poor
I sat, unaccountably, at the head of a table in the resident lounge, listening to our Heme/Onc fellow begin the […] Read More