Aspiring Docs Diaries

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Jun 13, 2016

Coming Out as a Psychiatrist

I imagine many people feel the same way I do–that they don’t quite fit in. As an adolescent, I was […] Read More

Jun 6, 2016

Doctoring

April 15, 2016 This week marks the end of my first-year “Doctoring” clinical skills course at The Warren Alpert Medical […] Read More

May 31, 2016

The VIP

I was a first-year medical student observer at the cancer center shadowing overnight during my winter break. It was 4:00a.m. and I […] Read More

May 18, 2016

Reconnecting

It was my first time interviewing a patient. Standing outside the room, I ran through OLDCARTS in my head, the […] Read More

May 16, 2016

Labor and Delivery

This had not always been the case for other departments, where health concerns would place a strain on families. Read More

May 9, 2016

Further

January 8, 2016 After the last exam of our first semester of our first year, we joked that we were […] Read More

May 2, 2016

Acceptance

I’m sitting in a bustling restaurant on the Upper West Side between two first-year medical students. It’s revisit weekend at […] Read More

Apr 26, 2016

Better

It was six months into my first year in medical school, and I was shadowing at the University Hospital with […] Read More