By your first week of graduate school, you’ve heard the word “orientation” so many times that it has become synonymous with “beginning.” In truth, your graduate school orientation is a moment of acclimation and discovery, filled with excitement, anticipation, and anxiety. At my Einstein orientation, I remember being excited about the shift in my career Read more

The recent Supreme Court decision to strike down affirmative action effectively disparages the intellectual value and contributions of racial and ethnic minority students. The decision leads those of us who saw affirmative action as an important attempt to remedy historic and systemic racism to question the foundation of equality and justice in U.S. educational institutions Read more

“It’s a very insidious, beneath-the-radar-screen public health emergency…. [F]unction is being considerably impaired…[but] that doesn’t attract as much attention as a death rate.” (Dr. Anthony Fauci interview about long COVID, October 2022) I scanned Robbins Auditorium on Rose F. Kennedy (RFK) Center Day. I noted few masks; mine was the only N95. With the announced Read more

I sometimes wonder if a butterfly ever misses being a caterpillar. It seems ridiculous—why would a butterfly, with its beauty and power of flight, miss its humbler, earthbound stage? And yet, until the moment that it first spread its delicate wings, this fluttering creature had only ever known life as a caterpillar. To achieve its Read more

The author, third from left with Einstein classmates (from left) Alex Levine, Ryan Linzer, Daniel Mitchel, Sharon Lam, Niloo Sima (left to right). I’m graduating from Einstein [next week], and as the day approaches, I like to recall how blessed I am to have the opportunity to become a physician. As medical students and M.D.s Read more