For as long as I can remember, All I wanted to be was a doctor. I studied a lot and memorized so many diseases, medication names, and biochemical pathways, stayed up for long lonely hours perfecting my diagnostic and presentation skills, sift through countless EKGs, X-rays, and CT scans to…

Medical residency programs are notoriously known for their rigorous and relentless training, and understandably so as you are preparing residents to become the physicians of the future, and taking care of people is one of the hardest things to do, with long-lasting effects of every decision a physician make on…

During medical school, I thought that our residency matching system is the best out there, come on, literally, the people who designed the matching algorithm won a whole Noble Prize for it. It is the utopian meritocracy we all fantasized about, all of which was delivered to us by our…

My reflection on this starts on this late evening of a summer night here in the midwest, reading this trending article by Dr. Pamela Wible about those lovely resident physicians who died in a span of one year during their residency program, two of suicide and one “accidentally”. The response…