For thousands of first-year medical students, including myself, last week marked the beginning of classes and our official entrance into the medical profession. We sat through lectures on the normal functions of the body, and many of us even set foot in the gross anatomy lab for the first time.
At my school, we didn’t just delve back into the basic sciences—on day two, we also began a class that will ...
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