Celebrating a family tradition: a recent medical school graduation
Last week, my niece, Maria Piedad Villadiego Carrascal, the only child of my sister, Maria A., graduated from medical school. In doing so, she became the seventh member of the Carrascal family to embrace medicine as a profession. It was an emotional moment. I could not hold back tears as I watched the event, which was streamed live.
By chance, the week before graduation, she and her cousin, my nephew Mauricio, …
