Medical school has given me not only the gift of knowledge and skills for healing, but also the gift of friendship. The friends I have made in medical school are going to be lifelong. There’s something to be said for sharing these transformative years together. We cram our heads day after day with new knowledge, celebrate the […]
About Tina
Skewed attachments
A natural consequence of caring medically for patients is caring for them as people as well. But in particular I’ve found that my bonds as a medical student have often been strongest with patients who were the least sick. Why it happens that way actually makes a lot of sense– 1) The sicker patients are often less […]
Medicine and Its Milieu
I was on the night shift of my internal medicine rotation the week the riots happened here in Baltimore, the city where I live and go to school. As a result, I saw a tiny glimpse of the profound effects the riots had on the city’s health. Quite a few patients who were admitted to the hospital during that time […]
