Hello all! It’s been a while since I posted about not matching into general surgery earlier this year and I wanted to post an update about my intern year and how I’ve been doing. For everyone who told me as a med student that residency is hard and I will want to go back to […]
What We Talk About When We Talk About Death
My involvement with death prior to intern year was sparse. I had only experienced death from afar. My grandparents passed away at varying points during my childhood and adolescence. I lost a friend to suicide when I was in medical school. Another was struck and killed by a car in college. I was not involved […]
Going to Battle
To say I was scared on the eve of July 1, 2017, would be a gross understatement of the truth. It was the final night before I would don the long white coat laden with the weight of real responsibility in addition to my lightly used stethoscope. I was paralyzed by a profound, gripping fear […]
