The famed pathologist William George MacCallum once asserted that “a successful pathologist is either single or unhappily married.” While his reasoning likely reflected his unique outlook on life shaped in part by his relationships with movie royalty he was perhaps in a small way prescient. Reflecting on my love of pathology as part of residency […]
Pathology Podcasting Goes Viral
2020 has been many things to many people but for me, one of the unquestionable positives to come from the past 8 months has been the emergence of what seems like a Cambrian Explosion in pathology podcasting. I would like to describe a few of the wonderful programs which have allowed pathology to dominate my […]
The Extras Become Essential
Given the importance of and effort required to succeed in the well-defined academic goalposts that frame medical school such as block exams and of course national board exams I often retrospectively question my decision to pursue the extracurricular course work I took on during my pre-clinical years. As I transition from 3rd to 4th year […]