This week we have the pleasure of hearing Dr. Robert Wachter’s speech at the 2017 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Commencement, titled “Talk to the Radiologist.” Robert M. Wachter, M.D. is Professor and current Chair of the Department of…
“Infant forced to go without milk, Mom says it’s not her fault.” This seems like the kind of terrifying headline that would be on the five O’clock news. Yet this is exactly what happens every day when the rights of…
We kick off the Commencement Archive with Dr. Claire Pomeroy’s 2017 commencement speech at Northeast Ohio Medical University titled “Your Gift (and Obligation)”. Claire Pomeroy, M.D., M.B.A. is current president and CEO of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. Under…
This city is so peaceful. As the bikes whiz by, I notice the absence of the cacophony and polluting fumes of traffic. I’m walking down the sidewalk in brown leather shoes and a tucked-in dress shirt while eating bougie gelato….
A mother separated from her missing husband flees a war-torn country, her homeland, to provide a brighter future for her children. She’s a dentist by training and practiced dentistry back home; but here, here she’s cleaning homes for a living. Why? When she…
The first thing I learned on my very first rotation was to never wake a sleeping patient. The first thing I learned on my most recent rotation was to never be afraid to wake a sleeping patient. With two completely…
The MSPress Journal is now open for submissions. Submit your theses excerpts, scientific research papers, research essays, interviews, medical ethics essays, creative writing pieces, sound pieces, and visual art pieces for review by August 1st. Guidelines for submissions can be found…
I walked up to my dad and said, “Baba, there’s something wrong with me”. I was probably around 8 years old at the time. He looked concerned and prompted me to tell him more. I said, “I cry a lot. About everything….
As medical students, we exist between two worlds. On the one hand, we’re tasked with learning as much as we can about the practice of medicine from our preceptors, many of whom have decades of experience. On the other hand,…
The Medical Student Press Journal team is delighted to announce that Volume 4 Number 1 is now live! You can access the journal here: https://goo.gl/4JuY6g ORIGINAL RESEARCH Lance-Adams Syndrome: A Case Report, Alec Rezigh, Kayla Riggs ESSAYS Celebrating the 200th…