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 […]
Motivations for Medicine
My decision to apply to medical school was motivated by a broad range of factors stemming from both my academic and extracurricular experiences. My work first as a mentor and later as program coordinator for STRIVE, a program for teens with sickle cell disease (SCD), offered me insight not only into the lived experiences of […]
A Battle Between Autonomy and Beneficence
During my heme onc rotation, I had a patient with Hodgkin’s lymphoma who arrived to the ED feeling faint. She had a hemoglobin of 3.4, likely chronic from her malignancy. Apparently, she had been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma a year ago, and had refused treatment and had opted to take herbal remedies instead. This was […]
