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Hey Jae: What should I study in college if I want to become a doctor?
Jul 28th
What should I study in college if I want to become a doctor? Whatever you love. I have classmates who majored in everything under the sun, including: French Biochemistry Piano performance Material science engineering Math Biology Chemistry English Neuroscience Take courses in whatever you’re interested in. I would push more for classes that teach you [...]
10 things I wish I’d known before starting med school
Jul 8th
It’s still a bit weird for me to know that I’m now officially a second-year medical student, but here’s my best shot at some pearls of wisdom! You really have to love medicine. If I offered you $100 million to quit medicine forever, you should be able to say no without looking back. I realize [...]
Bellybuttons: innie or outie?
Jun 16th
Interesting question came up on Quora, and I thought I’d share. Someone asked what determines whether we get innies or outies. Having never covered this in anatomy, I decided to investigate. Spent a few hours in the library researching ob/gyn, anatomy, and physiology texts, and also had a talk with one of my anatomy profs [...]
An open warning about admissions coaching services
Jun 2nd
Dear pre-med reader, It’s been brought to my attention that there are numerous online services that throw themselves at pre-meds, all promising top-notch personal statement support and advice, all for a seemingly “nominal” fee. I am hereby informing you, with utmost confidence, that they are all scams. My first tip-off to this was a comment [...]
What are some attributes of a gentleman?
May 26th
There was recently a question on Quora that asked this, and I gave an answer that was pretty well-received, so I thought I’d share it with the rest of the world since I’d already taken the time to write it. Intelligence: a gentleman should be well-read in multiple fields of literature, able to competently discourse [...]