Anastasia was just selected for the Gold Humanism Honor Society. That is an odd sounding award, but it is a high honor. Colombia medical students pick who of their fellow students they would want for their own doctor. One page describes it as … The Gold Humanism Honor Society, a national organization created to honor […]
Anastasia and I are looking for residencies for her to apply to. Anastasia has selected Family Medicine as her specialty, a choice that I am very pleased with. Part of the application process, requires that she write a “Personal Statement” explaining why she wants to study Family Medicine. I think Anastasia has written an really […]
For the last 4 weeks, I have spent my days in the cool darkness of the Prenatal Pediatrics Ultrasound Unit, at Columbia CHONY. Tiny kicking figures, fleeting across my monitor, at first incomprehensible but then slowly, delightfully human and complete. Evenings, I ran straight back to my study hole, where with Daniel’s constant encouragement, I […]