Author: Haris Ashraf

Haris Ashraf (1 Posts)

Contributing Writer Emeritus

Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine


I am a Class of 2016 medical student at the Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine interested in ethics, politics and medical anthropology.




Ethics in Training: Creating Humanistic Practitioners from Competent Clinicians

Medical training prides itself on being an art, never simply a black-and-white field where answers to increasingly complex health questions are merely algorithmically derived. It follows then that the only way for medical knowledge to transcend this rigid, computational process is through the accumulation of clinical experience, which over enough time should inform our intuition to the point where we become masters of navigating a sea of grays. This archetype is classically understood to be …

Haris Ashraf (1 Posts)

Contributing Writer Emeritus

Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine


I am a Class of 2016 medical student at the Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine interested in ethics, politics and medical anthropology.