Aspiring Docs Diaries

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Jul 28, 2015

The Calm Before the Storm

The summer before medical school is generally regarded as the last time of true freedom for doctors-to-be. We are supposed […] Read More

Jul 20, 2015

We Are F-A-M-I-L-Y

Walking out of that room, I realized that there is more to the word “family” than I had thought. Read More

Jul 15, 2015

Hold On to What Makes You Whole

Blackness covers the paper in its entirety. Hunched over, charcoal stained fingertips splayed out in front of me, I exhale […] Read More

Jul 13, 2015

The only one holding me back… was me.

I had been a humanities lover my entire life. Prior to college, I had planned on majoring in French or […] Read More

Jul 6, 2015

Bleary-eyed Rounds

“Is he out of bed today?” The nurse practitioner – NP for short – shook her head with a something […] Read More

Jun 29, 2015

Catching Up

Anyone aspiring to become a doctor, or who’s close to an aspiring doctor, knows that it takes a lot of […] Read More

Jun 24, 2015

Perspectives on the End Stages of Life

In a way, many of us are searching for the same thing: Who are we, where do we come from […] Read More

Jun 18, 2015

Studying for Step 1

I don’t think I have ever studied this hard for an exam before. I thought that as soon as the […] Read More