“Being ethical was not about being pure, he realized; it was caring about suffering.” Strangers Drowning was a read outside of the realm of genres I am accustomed to and was suggested by the professor of a Public Health ethics course I took several months ago. It covers the philosophical concept of the “do-gooder” the […]
A Pandemic Reading List
I’ve always believed that those who don’t understand the past are doomed to repeat it, and I think it holds true more now than ever. Living through outbreaks of disease is one of the big parts of the human experience and there is a lot of value in understanding these case studies of how individuals […]
An Unconventional Reading List for Medical School
During the summer, before my first year of med school, I made it my mission to read as much as I possibly could. This was my all-consuming quest and I treated it as seriously as if I were stocking up on provisions for a long journey out to sea. I devoured books by and about […]
