Month: February 2020

By Patricia Martinez Quinones “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” -   Ralph Waldo Emerson Imagine receiving an email that you have been selec...

By Jackelyn Moya  My first memory of being in a space where I was treated in a “traditional” manner was during my senior year in high school. My counselor was creating my schedule for my fin...

By Alyssa Brown “Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong”, called the attending from his swivel chair. It was my first day of third year. I had been placed at the Veterans Association hospital (VA) for a card...

By Erin M. Corsini, MD and Mara B. Antonoff, MD  As surgical trainees, we have a tendency to think of mentorship as a one-way street, a gift that is bestowed down from those with great experienc...

By Anna Garcia Whitlock, MD Banting - Metabolism, Huggins - Oncology, Murray - Immunology.  These are three of the nine surgeons who’ve won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. To me, it see...