The Dreams That Bring Us Here
An aspiring doctor journeys from the West Bank to New York–via Jordan, Ramallah and Jerusalem–in pursuit of the American dream…
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Podcasts
A Duplexity of Maladies
What’s it like to come down with two debilitating illnesses during your last year of college…?
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New Normal
It’s the bureaucratic hassles, not the special needs of an emotionally expressive son, that crush the soul…
Checking Our Assumptions
A male nurse experiences–and finds himself engaging in–profiling…
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The Quest of a Lifetime
In his teens, the author discovered he had a genetic disorder that made him feel like a mistake…
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Being Different: My Struggle and My Motivation
Hearing her mother say that doctors “don’t care about people like us” motivated her to become a nurse…
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Don’t Ever Let Them Break You
A medical student and then OB-GYN resident discovers what it’s like to be a woman in medicine.
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Many Shades of Different
“Stage IV cancer at age twenty-one made me different from my peers…”
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Nontraditional
A thirty-six-year-old mom with four children and four jobs embarks on a career in nursing…
Our Town (Chinese Spoken)
After ten years in the US, a Chinese immigrant finally finds a doctor who puts her at ease.
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Chameleon
At age five, on her first day of kindergarden, the author was asked, “Are you Black or white?”
A Weird Fit for Medicine
Front-page headlines can leave a queer physician feeling alone…
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