<span itemprop="author">Justin Koceja

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How do you tell one of your best friends that his dad may have an incurable brain tumor?

It was the morning of the last trauma shift during my surgery rotation. It was a seemingly normal early Sunday morning. However, when I arrived in the trauma charting room, there was no one to be found. After placing my coffee and protein bar down next…

To volunteer or to stay home? A medical student’s daily dilemma during COVID-19.

Wake up. Turn the coffee pot on. Stretch. Read about the latest news. Over the past several years, this same sequence of events has served as the start to my day, and it has continued to be my routine over the past few weeks. However, this early mornin…