Aspiring Docs Diaries

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Nov 21, 2016

Comparison is the Thief of Joy

Once you’ve decided to embark on the journey to medical school, it’s only natural to be curious about what other […] Read More

Nov 15, 2016

Letter to a Future Doctor

Dear Future Doctor, Please remember. Remember what it feels like to be a patient. Remember the pain, remember the anguish […] Read More

Nov 10, 2016

A Work in Progress

My second rotation as a third year medical student was internal medicine. Unlike my first clerkship, family medicine, internal medicine […] Read More

Nov 7, 2016

The Physician’s Pen

Becoming a medical scribe for an Emergency Physician has taught me more about medicine, about passion, and most importantly about […] Read More

Oct 31, 2016

Family First

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

Oct 24, 2016

De-Mystifying the Grey

“There’s no such thing as all or always, for everything there is an exception,” said Dr. Jerrold Teitcher, Director of […] Read More

Oct 19, 2016

Still Waiting for Someone to Pinch Me

Photo courtesy of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. This year’s White Coat Ceremony at Mount Sinai took […] Read More

Oct 11, 2016

Autonomy of a Different Kind

“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, […] Read More