Aspiring Docs Diaries

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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

Jun 15, 2015

The Code

I woke up that morning to loud quacking, the sound of my alarm clock. It was 5:30AM on a Saturday […] Read More

Jun 1, 2015

An Undocumented Student’s Road to Medicine

I vaguely remember a night in Seoul, South Korea in June of 1998; I was born there seven years earlier. […] Read More

May 28, 2015

Imprinted on the Heart

To a young man, I left school after morning classes were finished and arrived home expecting to take a short […] Read More