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Focus on what you want to do, not what you want to be

Dr. Joshua Inglis
Physician
February 17, 2021

I didn’t receive an offer to study medicine after graduating. Despite my best efforts, I’d fallen short. But what happened next made me realize the mistake I’d been making.

For a while, I thought I wanted to be a scientist.

After graduating from high school, my thirst for knowledge was at an all-time high. And without an offer to study medicine, I enrolled in what I thought was my next passion, science.

Studying …

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Donors are a medical student’s first teacher

Dr. Joshua Inglis
Education
April 30, 2017

I have fond memories of my first class in the anatomy laboratory. It was the Monday of my first week at medical school. I’d spent the last night pouring over my newly purchased anatomy textbooks. I wondered how I would ever appreciate the countless anatomical details of the human body. But as I stood around the benches with a body donor, everything changed. Suddenly all the organs, vessels and tissues …

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