Aspiring Docs Diaries

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Robert Dorfman

Med Student

Robert G. Dorfman is a 3rd year medical student currently taking a gap year as a Research Fellow in the Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at Northwestern. Robert holds dual degrees in History and Medicine and was educated at the University of Oxford, as well as Northwestern, where he was prodigiously admitted to medical school at the age of 18 through the Honors Program in Medical Education (HPME). Robert has published papers in the history of medicine on topics ranging from Franklin D. Roosevelet and polio to the impact of the discovery of anesthesia on the surgeon-patient relationship. He has presented this research internationally, as far away as Peking University 1st Hospital in Beijing, China. Robert enjoys making sense of modern medicine from a historical context, and likes to share his findings with others. You can contact Robert on Instagram @roberts_anatomy.

Stories by Robert

Nov 28, 2016

Make Time for Fun

Robert Dorfman

I wake up with sweat streaming down my face after another “salsa” dream. It is always the same; I elegantly […] Read More

Oct 31, 2016

Family First

Robert Dorfman

Becoming a doctor is HUGE for a boy growing up in a Russian family – far more impressive than even […] Read More