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Learning how to become a doctor begins long before medical school. Through our personal experiences with the healthcare system, we develop our own ideas of “good” and “bad” medical care. In this way, the physicians we meet, either as patients or through our loved ones, become our first teachers and role models. I met my first physician role model at two months old—Dr. Avery Weiss at Seattle Children’s Hospital. As an ophthalmologist, he saved much of my vision. Due to my cond

Our first sunset in Malawi was magnificent. If you’ve never seen the sun fall behind the legendary “Mountains Beyond Mountains” that inspired Paul Farmer, I implore you to use your imagination and I regret to inform you that the image you’ve conceived still does not compare to the real thing. The hazy evening light accompanied by the occasional buzzing, potentially infectious mosquito, tickles the soft hair on your arms and sends shivers up your spine. The sky faints away aft

“A dream is a wish your heart makes When you’re fast asleep” -Disney’s Cinderella, 1950 During my first year of medical school, on the first Monday of winter break, I slept for 18 hours straight. I woke up to a string of text messages and missed calls from concerned friends, glanced out the window to see pinks and oranges of the sunset streaking across the sky, and then promptly fell back asleep. It should come to no surprise then, that during this final block of medical scho