I work for Metaplan, a consulting company that specializes in alignment processes focusing on life science companies. We help client groups come together and get aligned on anything from launch and competitive readiness to evidence generation planning and scenario planning.
Read MoreThe biggest advice I have for students considering medicine is to remember that medicine is very much a marathon, not a sprint. Even as I may be considered as relatively early in my training, I’ve learned that taking care of myself is super, super important. That doesn’t necessarily mean just eating and sleeping well, but also doing things important for my wellness.
Read MoreAs a forensic psychiatrist, I spend a lot of time testifying. The challenge in testifying is turning the thinking and vocabulary of medical science into something that the jury can relate to and understand.
Read MoreEverybody has different challenges, physical or otherwise, and I’ve been fortunate to be able to go to Harvard and medical school afterwards even after facing many obstacles. But it’s important to understand that no matter where we go, there will always be things that don’t go our way.
Read MoreDuring this pandemic, students have had to switch from traditional to remote learning. As a result, you have communities who do not have access to resources and have basically been out of school this entire time.
Read MoreMedicine is challenging. There are many sacrifices that go into it, but there are also many meaningful moments. For instance, coordinating end-of-life conversations. No matter who you are - whatever status, color, orientation, culture - the one thing that is certain for all of us is death. It is incredibly important to help make that death as dignified as possible.
Read MoreI started college planning to concentrate in Chemistry and hoping to become a doctor. I had some wonderful mentors and advisors at Harvard, but in particular my freshman proctor recognized how much I really enjoyed English literature, especially poetry. Sure, he said, I could do chemistry, but there are so many other opportunities here, and I should take these four years and concentrate on something I was really passionate about.
Read MoreAt Harvard, I was blessed with the tremendous opportunity to conduct the Bach Society Orchestra (1982-84) and direct the Din & Tonics (1982-3). In New York City, I was able to pursue both medicine (residency in ophthalmology) and music (conducting the New York Philharmonic and the New York Youth Symphony in Carnegie Hall)…
Read MoreI’ve been a paramedic for 20 years, working 24, 48, and even 60 hour shifts at a time. The hardest challenge I’ve faced is accepting the fact that you cannot save everyone.
Read MoreI’ve been in public health for about a year and a half. Not even one year into the job, the pandemic hit. I was living, breathing, dreaming about COVID for several months, and I got to learn a lot about government and politics - things I had an interest in, but didn’t realize I’d be thrown into so quickly.
Read MoreMy biggest challenge in healthcare was finding balance. When I was practicing, my husband and I were always rounding on our patients at the crack of dawn, then we spent all day with our patients in the office, only to go back to the hospital at the end of the day.
Read MoreI chair a large Department of Medicine in New York City, so in the spring, we faced the biggest surge. We had to learn on the fly about a new disease and its manifestations. Not only did we have to learn medically how to care for the disease, but compounded upon that were decisions on supply management, safety, ethics, family, personal safety, too.
Read MoreWhen I was a student, I would go knock on doors of professors whose books I had read because I wanted to get to know them and ask them questions. Science tends to be conservative and competitive, so I always found that people had 10x the ideas in their heads beyond what they share in print.
Read MoreFor the last four months I’ve been working in an old age psych ward. During the last month, there’s been a COVID outbreak there, and I was the only junior doctor there…
Read MoreThe happiest moment in my premed career so far was starting BIOME and having the ability to create a program from scratch, to see it go from an idea in my head to a full-fledged program that continues to this day and has a legacy…
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