I can’t quite describe the feeling of sitting in the audience of my medical school graduation this past month. Among the rows of students anxiously awaiting the graduating class, I felt like an anomaly. When the newly minted doctors came down the aisle, my heart skipped a beat.
The truth is I should have been in that processional. I should have been an MD by now. No, I didn’t flunk out …
Every summer, medical schools around the country give out clean, crisp, new white coats. On the shoulder is the school’s signature emblem, with the new medical student’s name neatly etched above the pocket. A White Coat Ceremony commences where established physicians gown the new generation of doctors. It is a treasured, picturesque, and proud time. The ceremony ends with taking the Hippocratic Oath including the well-known verse “do no harm.” …
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