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Don't choose a specialty just because it makes lots of money, has a short residency, or because you can work shift hours. Read More

For months after my college graduation I had been struggling with what to do with my future. I was continually […] Read More

Every week, for two hours, I am granted reprieve from the hard sciences and voluminous textbooks traditionally associated with the […] Read More

Growing up, I was a sickly child, with the fear of hospitals and latex gloves. I associated them with pain, […] Read More

My interview days were some of the best days in the entire med school admissions process. They were exhilarating, exhausting, […] Read More

We were barely on time to the assisted living home – arriving at the wrong entrance had not helped – […] Read More

Even the most observant physician may have missed it. There, behind a glass wall, the human quintet exhibited piloerection, an […] Read More

“Your cadaver is your first patient, treat him or her as such,” our course director said. We sat feverishly waiting […] Read More