My parents both work in the healthcare field. There was a patient who came to their clinic a few years back who did not speak any English (only Spanish). At that time, I had just come back from Costa Rica after spending a semester abroad and becoming fluent in Spanish. My mom called me […]
Importance of Empathy
As with so much else in medicine, the wisdom of William Osler represents perhaps the best port from which to begin this journey to reflection into our profession and ourselves as practitioners. From the depths of Osler’s wisdom, the fragment which seems most relevant to me is the assertion that “No two bodies are alike, […]
Understanding Ubuntu
During my gap year, I had the privilege of working for an AmeriCorps organization called City Year. It is a one-year commitment to 1,700 hours of mentoring and tutoring inner-city kids. I was placed at South High School in a 9th-grade math classroom in Columbus, Ohio. It is difficult to describe entirely how this year […]
