The new year has begun, and at UCLA we are learning about Psychiatry. This past week I went to preceptorship to shadow an Internal Medicine doctor. I told him we were learning about personality and mood disorders. Fortunately, several of his patients that day had some form of psychiatric disorder. Luck may not have had […]
Reaching Out at Reach Out
I needed to remind myself why I’m still doing this. It’s so hard to explain because I know that there were literally thousands of students that wanted my seat but rather than a seat on a cross-country journey, this is more like front row on a roller coaster. The long days of lectures and lab […]
The Cancer Patient
He was sitting in a coffee shop. He had driven there from the hospital. He had cancer. That is what he had been told, stage 1 testicular cancer. He had reacted very calmly to the news, so much so that the doctor had asked if he knew what cancer was and whether he understood fully […]
