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 […]
Weekends in the Psych Ward
“Wha’cha watching?” Derek asked as he pulled a plastic chair away from the bare common room table in the locked adult psychiatric ward. A man who I’ll call Mark sat like he had melted into the recliner in the corner of the room. Hardly a muscle tensed, with his belly nudging out from under his […]
Staying Human in Medical School
The road to becoming a physician is certainly a long and tedious one. Some might even consider it “soul sucking.” With just a year of medical school under my belt, I have already found that it can be very easy to lose track of why I started this journey in the first place. Studies have […]
