I participated in a medical mission to Haiti with the Hope for Tomorrow Foundation. The trip only lasted a week, but the impression it made will stay with me forever. I experienced a culture shock stepping off the plane: “tent cities” sprawled the streets, sewage and garbage piled up to no end, and the people had nowhere to go.
Upon arriving to the hospital in Les Cayes, there were hundreds of …
Medical education needs to get a passport
As the nation, physicians, hospitals, and political pundits await the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act, I find myself waiting for something else: to begin medical school. I will be hitting the books, studying vigorously, and desperately trying to remember the myriad of information being thrown at me well after the justices decide the fate of President Obama’s landmark legislation. So what does this mean for me, or …
Become not just a physician, but a great physician
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