One of the things I appreciate about internal medicine is its short-term, intimate relationships you have with patients. Sometimes no more than a few days, you spend hours at a time with a patient, consulting other teams, running labs, trying to piece together a puzzle that is a patient’s diagnosis. It’s fascinating. I thought that […]
Magic Words: “Can you help me?”
One of the hardest things about medical school is the social isolation that invariably happens, due to the number of hours we have to dedicate to studying. We have to prioritize our studies over everything else, and that usually means saying “no” countless times to social events, friends, and family. That hit me the hardest […]
New Hobbies in Med School
I have always been interested in a lot of different things. This is part of the reason that I am so drawn to emergency medicine. I find myself going stir crazy if I do the same thing over and over again. Even in med school, when I thought I would have no time for anything […]
