As I write this post, I am relying primarily on the vision of my left eye, as my right eye vision has been impaired for the last several days now. Last week, I noticed acute blurry right eye vision, and went to the ED, remembering that acutely blurred vision was an indication for prompt evaluation […]
Impact of Shadowing on Patients
With the start of a new academic year and a rapidly approaching start to the next application cycle, I thought this was a good time to fulfill a request I recently received from a reader regarding the impact of pre-medical shadowing on patients. It was their contention that shadowing by premeds occur absent of consideration […]
Being a Medical Student During a Pandemic
This is an extremely unique time to be a medical student. COVID-19 has changed the landscape of what medical education looked like over this past semester, and it promises to continue to change what it looks like going forward. First and second-year medical students had to transition to a largely online curriculum and I can’t […]
