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Medical education
Taking gap year(s) before medical school does not mean that you have failed or that you are "lesser than" as a student. These are the words I needed to hear as a resolute pre-med student who used to proudly proclaim…
Taking gap year(s) before medical school does not mean that you have failed or that you are “lesser than” as a student. These are the words I needed to hear as a resolute pre-med student who used to proudly proclaim that I was “going straight through” to med school. It was like a badge of honor—why do anything that would delay my path to becoming a physician?
The pre-med years
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Ode to the gap year(s) before medical school
Conditions and diseases
To contain COVID-19 and re-open the economy, the U.S. should be performing 500,000 tests per day. We are nowhere near that number. Widespread implementation of CRISPR-based testing would address deficits in the current testing landscape. The most common method of…
To contain COVID-19 and re-open the economy, the U.S. should be performing 500,000 tests per day. We are nowhere near that number.
Widespread implementation of CRISPR-based testing would address deficits in the current testing landscape. The most common method of testing for COVID-19—reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)—costs $100 per test, takes four-six hours to run, involves
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How CRISPR technology can solve our COVID-19 testing problems
Medical education
What is your gut reaction when you hear the words "hospital chaplain?" Maybe it's an eye roll or confused stare about what you believe to be an incoming attempt at religious conversion. As a family member anxious about a loved…
What is your gut reaction when you hear the words “hospital chaplain?” Maybe it’s an eye roll or confused stare about what you believe to be an incoming attempt at religious conversion. As a family member anxious about a loved one in the hospital, maybe it’s a sigh of relief. As a patient, maybe it’s an overwhelming fear of incoming bad news. Health care chaplaincy is chronically misunderstood, beginning with …
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It’s time to stop being skeptical of hospital chaplains
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