Valentine Esposito, MD

Valentine Esposito is a pediatric resident.

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Conditions and diseases

An insufficiency of enoughness: a doctor’s reflections on anxiety

Valentine Esposito, MD

August 29, 2020Aug 29, 2020

My college graduation was approaching, and I was slated to start medical school in the fall. I was happy. You could find me with an impossible smile, singing along with the windows down to my favorite song — Beat of the Music by Brett Eldredge — as I made my way through menial errands. Everything felt like sunshine.

Before I knew it, the metaphorical firehose of medical school was underway. I …

Physician voices

The weight of it: a pediatrician’s thoughts on how words last a lifetime

Valentine Esposito, MD

November 6, 2019Nov 6, 20193

Start at the origin. Over two, up four. Down three, right six. Left five, up one. Keep connecting the dots. Everything will take shape. I liked graphs. Plotting coordinates — whether it be for a parabola or ellipse — was…

Start at the origin. Over two, up four. Down three, right six. Left five, up one. Keep connecting the dots. Everything will take shape.

I liked graphs. Plotting coordinates — whether it be for a parabola or ellipse — was always calming for me: numbers told you exactly where you needed to be.

But my numbers scared me. My 8-year-old feet would hesitantly step on the scale at the doctor’s office. I …