Aspiring Docs Diaries

Stories: Emergency Department

Nov 13, 2019

Humanism in Medicine

Dharam Persaud-Sharma

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

Sep 24, 2018

Trauma Bay One

Jordan Nichols

It was a warm and sunny late spring day. A comfortable 73 degrees, the birds were chirping their harmonious chorus […] Read More

Aug 16, 2018

Tangible Meanings

Gaurav Majmudar

I remember walking into my freshman orientation at Boston College (BC) anxious about what the next four years meant for […] Read More

Nov 7, 2016

The Physician’s Pen

Jacqueline Suttin

Becoming a medical scribe for an Emergency Physician has taught me more about medicine, about passion, and most importantly about […] Read More

Jun 6, 2016

Doctoring

Nihaal Mehta

April 15, 2016 This week marks the end of my first-year “Doctoring” clinical skills course at The Warren Alpert Medical […] Read More

May 31, 2016

The VIP

Ogochukwu Ezeoke

I was a first-year medical student observer at the cancer center shadowing overnight during my winter break. It was 4:00a.m. and I […] Read More

May 18, 2015

My “Why Healthcare” Moment

Ngozi Ihenacho

Standing in front of the Grady Hospital entrance on my first day of volunteering, I looked up at the sky […] Read More

Sep 4, 2014

Shortness of Breath, Again

Tyler Mains

On a typically balmy autumn afternoon in Baltimore City, Mr. S could barely breathe. Throughout the prior week, he had […] Read More

Aug 21, 2014

MD, HB: Medical Doctor, Human Being

Basheer Elsolh

I was spending the day in the Emergency Department of a community hospital. Though it was a small department with […] Read More