Non-Fiction
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A Letter to the Lonely Medical Student
I am living the dream that my five-year-old self couldn’t even fully imagine, yet some days, actually a lot of days, the dream and idea of being a doctor one day is the only thing that keeps me going. This is lonely. This is hard.
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The Meaning of Perseverance
Before I began medical school one of my mentors told me, “You do not have to be the smartest to make it. You just have to persevere.”
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Pharmacopeia: Epinephrine
Most people know the word “adrenaline” better than the word “epinephrine,” but the substance is one and the same.
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Black and White
She began to wheel me through the door and offer encouraging words of farewell when she suddenly stopped. “Wait a minute,” she said. “That’s not him.” She promptly spun me around and headed back into the building.