There’s a quote attributed to Albert Einstein: “We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Now in my fourth year at Einstein, I am inspired by this ideal to fight for healthcare reform, specifically a single-payer national healthcare program. Access and discrimination Today, a form of Read more
Medical School
It is often said during interviews of prospective M.D./Ph.D. candidates that a career as a physician-scientist allows one to translate the two languages of medicine and research. Now that I’m approaching graduation from the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, I’m able to reflect on the milestones I passed in Read more
In a recent post in this space, I wrote about the iCOMPARE research study that is comparing the effects of increasing medical residents’ consecutive duty hours with observing the currently prescribed limits on their shifts. According to the study protocol, the primary hypothesis of the research addresses the safety of patients: that mortality under the Read more
Editors’ Note: Tomorrow is Match Day, when graduating medical students across the nation learn where they will spend their residencies. In this post, we hear from a student who shares his thoughts about what the process of matching means to him. In my mind, Match Day is like a scene out of a movie or a book. As Read more
“Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray—a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failures.” —Rene Leriche, The Philosophy of a Surgeon, 1951 With this epigraph, Henry Marsh begins Do No Harm, a bittersweet memoir of his life Read more
Editors’ Note: The following essay by Albert Einstein College of Medicine second-year medical student Shoshana Weiner was first published in the journal Current Oncology. Curiosity and apprehension. I experience this tension as a young man ushers me through large daunting doors with “Authorized Personnel Only” posted in bold red letters. Inside, a massive machine dominates the Read more
