Aspiring Docs Diaries
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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
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
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
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
Bleary-eyed Rounds
“Is he out of bed today?” The nurse practitioner – NP for short – shook her head with a something […] Read More
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
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
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