Aspiring Docs Diaries
Stories: Self Care
A Medical Student Perspective on Loss and Self-Awareness
“There are these two young fish swimming along and they meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods […] Read More
Experimenting with Biofeedback: Reconnecting with Breath to Manage Stress
The mark is one hundred and seventy beats per minute (bpm). As I step off the elliptical, the only remaining […] Read More
Cancer is My Teacher
The patient was a twenty-two-year-old male with a history of classical Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. If you perused the chart, you could […] Read More
Coping During a Crisis: COVID-19’s Impact on Medical Students
As spring break started in early March of this year, many of my second-year peers ventured off into various corners […] Read More
Prioritizing Wellness in the Whirlwind of COVID-19
In the midst of COVID-19, our communities have been stricken with a virus that has changed the landscape for how […] Read More
Meditation in Medicine
When I was a pre-med my life was extremely task oriented. There was always a checklist looming over my head, […] Read More
Life Beyond your To Do Lists
It is an excellent feeling when you know you are planning out your day, week or even month, before executing […] Read More
The Power of Pausing
“You can do anything, but not everything.” –David Allen I have shamelessly taken this title from Eckhart Tolle’s excellent book […] Read More
Drifting From the Beaten Path
My three years in college have taught me that I do not have to have to embark on a journey […] Read More
The Creativity of Medicine
In hindsight I attempted to mold myself into a one-sided, cookie-cutter version of the premed stereotype, losing sight of my true self. Read More
Make Time for Fun
I wake up with sweat streaming down my face after another “salsa” dream. It is always the same; I elegantly […] Read More
Burnout: A Hidden Epidemic
At 27 years old, I look around at my non-medical friends with envy at times. They have paying jobs, financial […] Read More