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Advocating for Community Health

During my Internal Medicine rotation, I cared for a Latinx patient with end stage renal disease.  He had made all the recommended lifestyle changes and was…

The Other Room / Instagram Consult

Two Poems The Other Room “They’re doing compressions!” I heard ring through the hall.I was with a frail, elderly, demented woman though. She’d fallen, hit her…

Reflections on Death in Daily Living

Death. We say the word and instantly shudder. It is something our subconscious has decided to suppress from our mind. We constantly fight death – outsmarting it with medications…

An Open Letter to My Fellow Introverts

Recently, I have had thought-provoking discussions with fellow classmates about being introverted. Some physicians advise students to “become more extroverted,” which is easier said than…

Pay It Forward

We are all in medical school because of other people; not one of us made it here without relying on a support system. My family…

When do I become a doctor?

Last week, many of my classmates were posting “last day of school” photos as we completed our final classes of medical school, often captioning them…

A Love Letter to my Fellow Students, in the time of COVID-19

Yesterday I ran. I stepped outside into the blue sky and I fled, needing to feel my lungs burn. There were daffodils dancing and children…

To My Classmates of 2020

These past few months have been an unprecedented time of social and economic upheaval. For many of us, the effects of the pandemic have been…

Free Fallin’

As Match day comes steadily closer and closer and thoughts of the future come creeping in, despite attempts to push them away, I can’t help…

Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: Productivity

Call me fanatical… but is it just me, or do we find value in productivity, in the busyness of each day, in the “go go…