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A Greater Calling
There are moments throughout medical school when I have to stop and remind myself just how grateful I am. In the endless studying, early mornings, long hospital days, and the constant pursuit of becoming a better student, it is easy to lose sight of the privilege that drew me here in the first place. Medicine… Continue reading
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Dedicated
“Six weeks. Ten hours a day. Practice exams. Questions. Flashcards. Repeat.” That is what dedicated sounds like. Every morning starts the same way. The coffee brews before the sun comes up. I sit down at my desk, open another question bank, and tell myself to trust the process. Forty questions become another forty. Flashcards. Review.… Continue reading
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Walking the Tightrope of Life: OB/GYN
There are things that medicine will teach you, and then there are things that only life itself can teach you, and my OB/GYN rotation was another moment of my 3rd-year where I truly felt the difference between the two. I walked into it having studied the mechanisms of labor, the layers of the uterus, the… Continue reading
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Cuts, Calluses, and Character: My Surgical Rotation
There is a particular kind of tired that only exists at hour fourteen of a surgical call shift. Your feet stopped hurting around hour twelve. Your brain is somewhere between hyper-focused and fundamentally disconnected from your body. The OR is still humming, with the bovie crackling, the pulse ox singing its steady tone, the attending’s… Continue reading
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2 Months in Urgent Care: A Lesson in Access, Urgency, and Humanity
Spending two months in an urgent care setting during my family medicine rotation was both rewarding and humbling in ways I didn’t fully expect. One of the most striking things I encountered wasn’t just the variety of medical conditions, but the reality of how patients access care. Many of the people we saw were underinsured… Continue reading
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The Search for Answers: Lifestyle Medicine
Lifestyle Medicine didn’t begin for me in a clinic or a textbook. It began as a question and a search for answers. When I started medical school in the summer 2023, I was eager to understand the anatomy and physiology behind the human body. I moved through the first year focusing on memorizing structures, pathways,… Continue reading
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Science of Happiness
What I Learned From Dr. Laurie Santos About the Science of Happiness Dr. Laurie Santos teaches the most popular class in Yale’s history and hosts The Happiness Lab podcast. She has spent years studying what actually makes us feel fulfilled. Her work cuts through myths and brings the science back to center stage. Here are… Continue reading
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“Ortho Bro” Orthopedics: Where I Expected Protein Shakes and Power Tools, but Got Something Better
I went into my orthopedic rotation expecting a room full of bodybuilder physicians comparing max bench numbers while nurses yelled over the sound of power drills. I figured someone would eventually ask me to spot them while they openly reduced an ankle fracture. Instead I walked into a world that looked very different. My days… Continue reading
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The Heart of Healing: Reflections from Internal Medicine Rotation
I just finished my Internal Medicine rotation, and it’s hard to put into words how transformative these past four weeks have been. This rotation was not just about learning to manage chronic conditions or interpret lab results, rather it was about rediscovering why I fell in love with medicine in the first place! The structure… Continue reading
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Two Months in GI: Lessons Learned
The past two months in the field of Gastroenterology have felt like standing at the crossroads of science and humanity. Each day revealed something new about the quiet, persistent ways our bodies speak and how, too often, we only listen when it’s almost too late. I watched how a simple routine colonoscopy could change the… Continue reading
Life is like a poem filled with stanzas of people who will change the way you think and view the world.
-Dawson Myers
A current medical student and prospective physician scientist who meticulously crafts “Stanzas” based on personal experiences.