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Meeting a Stranger
I stood beneath my attending’s towering frame. My knees were buckling from standing and the crease in my new sneakers were sharpening as I periodically rose on my toes for a clearer window. I was unaware of the plan for this patient, as I’d walked in with his body face down on the operating table.…
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Dear Donor,
“Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become.” Heraclitus Our lives are saturated with the jurisdiction of choices. So much so, that when you make the choice to come to medical school, you quickly learn that you will have worldly friends who dabble in Greek Philosophy…
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Knowing everything at 18, but nothing at 22
Graduating college almost three months ago was just like any ordinary day. I’d woken up to the sound of the 8:30 am garbage truck making a hodgepodge of thuds and hisses, as it temporarily obstructed the morning light that soaked into my second floor apartment. A door unlocked, and the click echoed off the thin…
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A Living Paradox
A glance in the mirror is all it takes to tell the story of a wistful generational dream. A dream clung on by the innate human desire for better, for more. But a dream so paradoxical in nature that it spins like a top in hypnotizing circles through an endless labyrinth. It was in the…
Personal Reflections 