Benjamin Borokhovsky is a medical student.

Evidence-based medicine and bias: the truth about common therapies and clinical trials

Conditions and Diseases
May 7, 2023

Evidence-based medicine is a term that attendings like to pepper into their teaching rounds, and medical students like to conspicuously incorporate into their assessment and plan. There is so much clinical trial data out there that it is impossible to stay up to date on the most recent guidelines or the newest landmark trial that all of our time goes into scrutinizing the results. However, we rarely delve into the …

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Evidence-based medicine and bias: the truth about common therapies and clinical trials

A state of service — and how flow can get you there

Medical Education
May 2, 2022

In 6th grade, my humanities teacher wrote a prompt for our class final: What is the purpose of life?

I immediately grabbed my pencil and thundered away without a second thought. Five minutes in, I was still the only one writing. Rachmaninoff, the famous Russian composer who was known for intricate melodies, once said that after one has played a great many number of notes does he realize that true genius …

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A state of service — and how flow can get you there