Aspiring Docs Diaries

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Feb 6, 2020

Dear Me at 18

It’s 2011, and you’re in the first few weeks of college. You’ve just had this wonderfully lazy last summer of […] Read More

Jan 30, 2020

Letter to My First-Year-Self: Reflections on my Medical School Journey

It’s been a few months since the medical school year started anew. For the first year students, the #FirstDayofSchool selfies […] Read More

Nov 13, 2019

Humanism in Medicine

When did it become okay to look the other way, cut corners or treat people like a commodity? Never in […] Read More

Oct 23, 2019

The Day I Met Empathy

It was a hot summer day as usual, and I was studying for the USMLE Step 1, (The United States […] Read More

Aug 22, 2019

Fears About Medical School

Medical school is one of those conversational references for comparison in tough situations: “Don’t be complaining about that tough client, […] Read More

Aug 15, 2019

The Match Gods

Match week is possibly the most emotionally exhausting weeks in all of medical school, beating out waiting for board scores, […] Read More

Aug 2, 2019

Events Overnight – Five Days Old

“How are things on Red Team?” “Everyone’s doing okay so far!” I laugh before adding, “I’m not using the Q […] Read More

Jul 23, 2019

What I Learned from My Illness

As a pre-med student, there have been times when I have found it difficult to relate to patients. I have […] Read More