Triage is the act of assigning degrees of urgency to patients or situations, and at each stage of medical school this has consistently been an important skill to master. In my first two years, this involved learning specific groups of facts, in my third, this expanded to clinical care, and in my fourth-year, began to […]
Medicine in the Media: Pathologists as Partners
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 […]
Stay Connected, Create Happiness, Be Kind
I am so excited to be returning to Merck Manuals Med Student Stories as a resident physician. Having a few months off before starting residency has been bittersweet. I wish I could travel and see beautiful places while connecting with friends and making new ones in the process. That has been the toughest part. In […]
