What Medical School Interviewers Are Listening For
Somewhere on your phone is a note with your interview answers already written out. One for “why medicine.” Another for…
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Last One, Fast One: The Mantra I Carried Into Medicine
Last one, fast one. Coach’s voice echoed across the pool. I watched the pace clock tick the seconds away, took a deep…
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The Dream That You Don’t Belong (Even Thirty Years In)
September puts the meetings back on the calendar. New fellows start. Committee assignments arrive without much…
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What Happens After You Submit AMCAS — and Why September Is So Quiet
You submitted your AMCAS application in June. It is September. Two secondaries have come in, one school has said nothing…
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Daily Affirmations and Physician Coaching
What a 1990s SNL character got right about coaching, and what he got right about getting it wrong. During the early 90s,…
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Why Are So Many of Us Breaking?
This is a hard post to write. It is also important. I have escorted trainees to the emergency room for urgent…
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Is Medicine Right for Me? Start With an Ordinary Tuesday
At some point you typed is medicine right for me into a search bar. Then somebody told you to go shadow a doctor.…
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Rest Is a Professional Skill: A Labor Day Argument for Physicians
There are two monitors on my desk. One has Epic open. The other holds my calendar, and most days a partially read echo…
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