I sit cross-legged amidst the towers of papers. I lift another page from the top of the stack in front of me. My hand-written reflections to an excerpt from Dave Eggers. A prompt for a poetry final project. And a graded vocabulary quiz below it. They say smell is supposed to trigger the strongest […]Continue Reading
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28NovBad Idea #134
They say the best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. Here is my bad idea #134: Drawn using Sketchable on Microsoft Surface. Continue Reading
15NovThe Key Feedback Loop That’s Missing in Medicine
#EngineerInTheWards is a series based on my experiences and reflections during hospital rotations. I completed my PhD at the Harvard-MIT HST Program where I took approximately the first year of medical school coursework at Harvard and 3 months of clinical rotations, in addition to engineering coursework at MIT. I started my hospital rotations thinking that the […]Continue Reading
23SepThe Tomato Method: How I Finished My PhD at MIT
I finished my PhD in Biomedical Engineering at a joint program between MIT and Harvard Medical School. During the last 9 months of my PhD, my life could be summarized by: work, eat, sleep, and repeat. There were times where I didn’t leave my apartment for days on end. It was a brutal schedule. I […]Continue Reading
24Aug5 Surprising Things about the Human Body #EngineerInTheWards
#EngineerInTheWards is a series based on my experiences and reflections during hospital rotations. I am an Engineering PhD Student in the Harvard-MIT HST Program, which means I take approximately the first year of medical school coursework at Harvard and do 3 months of clinical rotations in addition to engineering coursework at MIT. These are 5 interesting […]Continue Reading
23AugThe Secret “Google” Used By Doctors and Unknown to Patients #EngineerInTheWards
#EngineerInTheWards is a series based on my experiences and reflections during hospital rotations. I am an Engineering PhD Student in the Harvard-MIT HST Program, which means I take approximately the first year of medical school coursework at Harvard and do 3 months of clinical rotations in addition to engineering coursework at MIT. When a regular person wants […]Continue Reading
22AugThe biggest problem with the healthcare system #EngineerInTheWards
#EngineerInTheWards is a series based on my experiences and reflections during hospital rotations. I am an Engineering PhD Student in the Harvard-MIT HST Program, which means I take approximately the first year of medical school coursework at Harvard and do 3 months of clinical rotations in addition to engineering coursework at MIT. One of the biggest problems […]Continue Reading
21Aug3 Things That Surprised Me About Medical Education #EngineerInTheWards
As an Engineering PhD Student in the Harvard-MIT HST Program, I get an insiders taste of medical education. I take approximately the first year of medical school coursework and do 3 months of clinical rotations in the hospital. Here are the things that surprised me about medical education: Medical education is very hands on […]Continue Reading
19AugPretending to be a Doctor #EngineerInTheWards
Day 4 of being on the wards. Day 1 of interviewing a patient by myself (!). The amount I saw today was overwhelming. 7am: Morning Report What is it? The daily meeting where overnight residents tell the day time residents what happened to all the patients overnight. The supervising senior physician will sometimes give a […]Continue Reading
18AugHow to Perform Physical Exams #EngineerInTheWards
The majority of my Intro to Clinical Medicine course (HST 201M) this summer was dedicated to learning how to perform various physical exams*. We percussed and auscultated, inspected and palpated every part of the body. To prepare for our test at the end of the summer, I made a checklist for every physical exam we learned. I thought […]Continue Reading
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