Aspiring Docs Diaries

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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

Oct 3, 2016

Of Surgery and The Robot

My eyes shone and I could feel the grin spreading across my face as the robot sprang to life, its […] Read More

Sep 26, 2016

Time for Myself

Medicine is about serving others. It’s about developing a set of skills and knowledge and combining them with compassion to […] Read More

Sep 19, 2016

Stay Kind

Perhaps the most resilient quality you can retain, as you progress through medical training, is to remain kind. During my […] Read More

Sep 12, 2016

In Defense of Doing “Nothing”

During the fall of 2015 I was finishing up my last semester of college. The arduous medical school application process […] Read More

Sep 6, 2016

Little Girl Blue

She lay there, small and seemingly lifeless. Everything surrounding her is industrial—wires and tubes connecting this way and that—paralleling the […] Read More

Aug 29, 2016

Undifferentiated

It was midway through the semester, and as medical students, we were well aware of the allure of a free […] Read More