Heather Furnas, MD
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Letters of recommendation help open gates to university admissions, jobs, and scholarships. Now that more colleges are ditching SAT/ACT requirements and medical schools are grading pass/fail, these letters will likely rise in importance. As a decision-maker myself, I rely on…
Letters of recommendation help open gates to university admissions, jobs, and scholarships. Now that more colleges are ditching SAT/ACT requirements and medical schools are grading pass/fail, these letters will likely rise in importance. As a decision-maker myself, I rely on a letter writer’s personal judgment in vouching for (or not mentioning) an applicant’s work ethic, experience, and character.
At least I did—until the subject of one of my own letters …
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Let’s rethink letters of recommendation
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A few months ago, I was wrapping up a lengthy consultation, when my patient pulled out three pages of an "ask your plastic surgeon" questions she’d found on Google. I had other patients waiting, so I was about to direct…
A few months ago, I was wrapping up a lengthy consultation, when my patient pulled out three pages of an “ask your plastic surgeon” questions she’d found on Google.
I had other patients waiting, so I was about to direct her to my staff, when she posed this question: “Would you do surgery on a member of your family?”
What a strange must-ask question, I thought. “No,” I said aloud. “Not major …
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The day I operated on my daughter
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