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Justin Koceja is a medical student.

How do you tell one of your best friends that his dad may have an incurable brain tumor?

Justin Koceja
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May 18, 2020

It was the morning of the last trauma shift during my surgery rotation. It was a seemingly normal early Sunday morning. However, when I arrived in the trauma charting room, there was no one to be found. After placing my coffee and protein bar down next to a computer, another medical student walked in, and he looked just as puzzled as I was at the sight of an empty room.

“Where …

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To volunteer or to stay home? A medical student’s daily dilemma during COVID-19.

Justin Koceja
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April 17, 2020

Wake up. Turn the coffee pot on. Stretch. Read about the latest news. Over the past several years, this same sequence of events has served as the start to my day, and it has continued to be my routine over the past few weeks. However, this early morning routine has been the only thing in my life that has remained “routine” since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

As a third-year medical student …

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