Tutoring is the most selfish thing I do. This probably sounds counterintuitive, but let me explain. To state the obvious, medical school is hard. You spend four years pushing yourself to the limit of your comfort zone. For two years, you cram more info…
During my pathology rotation as a third-year medical student, I had the opportunity to examine many patients’ slides under the microscope. This allowed me to study and understand diseases in ways different from how I had often done during my prev…
Two-thirds of U.S. high schoolers reported difficulty completing schoolwork since the beginning of the pandemic, with lesbian, gay and bisexual youth among the most severely affected.
It’s been shown that patients can benefit from a satisfying medical experience and the actual clinical treatment. The satisfying medical experience in and of itself leads to trust, follow-through, and health improvements. Medical school is the op…
French retailer Leroy Merlin this week became the target of the Ukrainian government, which has crusaded over the last few weeks against companies it believes aren’t doing enough to punish Russia financially.
The move will give 95 lower-income countries access to a generic version of Pfizer’s oral Covid-19 antiviral treatment.
When you are trapped in a locker room in only your underwear at 3 a.m., you realize how many things must have gone wrong for you to land in that spot. Within the first week of my clinical rotations, I managed to be bested by the scrub machine. It was a…
Describe a challenge and how you overcame it. Is this an interview? It is. I see. Yes, the way you are looking at me like I should be providing an answer. OK, well. You see this is a challenge right here because you are two-dimensional and yet I have b…
I badged myself back to the operating room and hiked up my ill-fitting scrubs. The bouffant was twice the size of my head. It made me feel like a child playing dress-up in adult clothes. As I walked to the OR, I rehearsed what I would say in my head. N…
The new reality of medical conferences shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic requires a new language and a fundamental rethink to make these major showcases of medical organizations and societies a place where physicians and patients can share their experien…
