Aspiring Docs Diaries

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Apr 23, 2014

3 Real #FirstWorldProblems

Many of us millennials toss around the term #firstworldproblems so easily. I know the fact that there’s whole milk in […] Read More

Apr 16, 2014

Health Disparities in Our Own Backyard

It has been quite some time since my last post. Qualifiers (the only thing close to finals at my school) […] Read More

Feb 26, 2014

Closing Time

Very recently, we had our last day of anatomy. Anatomy class quickly grew to become a defining milestone in our […] Read More

Feb 18, 2014

A Second Year’s Second Semester

It’s already February and there are only four more units (behavioral sciences, women’s health, musculoskeletal, and nervous system) before one […] Read More

Jan 30, 2014

The Subtleties of Medicine

They say medicine is a hard science, based on heavily scrutinized theories and proven postulates.  Medicine is supposedly made up […] Read More

Jan 6, 2014

Reflection Outside the Classroom

Photo Credit: Wikipedia I spent Thanksgiving evening on the floor of my mother’s one bedroom apartment, carving out pieces of […] Read More

Dec 13, 2013

I Am Just A Medical Student

She’s well into middle age*, but appears just days older than 40. Her eyes are sunken, tearful, worried, anxious. She […] Read More

Dec 13, 2013

Eyes

I walk – coffee and census in hand – to my patient’s room. I never met her, so I begin […] Read More