Laura Fitzpatrick, a former TIME writer-reporter, is a second-year medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City
It’s a fine line that divides the healer and the sick — and learning to walk it will be one of my greatest challenges in becoming a doctor.
Doctors are privy to — but not really part of — patients’ most private moments
A first-year medical student encounters her first cadaver: in dissection class.
It’s never too soon for medical students to have their first patient encounter
My very first patient died — twice.
Less than a week after our White Coat Ceremony — the symbolic start of our medical education, in which we donned short white student coats in front of faculty, friends and family — I, …
