Author: Colleen Farrell

Colleen Farrell Colleen Farrell (1 Posts)

Contributing Writer Emeritus

Harvard Medical School

Colleen Farrell is a fourth year medical student at Harvard Medical School. She is a member of the Student Leadership Committee of the Harvard Center for Primary Care, a guest editor of the AMA Journal of Ethics, and plays violin in the Longwood Symphony Orchestra, Boston's medical community orchestra. She is currently writing a memoir about her medical education. She plans to pursue a career in primary care.




Breaking Boundaries and Finding Love in Patient Care

Published by Colleen Farrell

On a recent visit to my parents’ home in Upstate New York, just as the snow had finished melting and our tulips were beginning to sprout, my dad and I went out for a walk. As we made our way down our driveway to the railroad-tracks-turned-walking-trail that runs through the woods near our house, we bumped into one of my dad’s patients. With a hearty grin, the middle-aged man proudly told my dad how his morning blood sugars were improving. My dad beamed, and gave him a big high five. Later, as we walked along the trail, he told me how thrilled he was to see this patient getting the exercise that would help treat his diabetes and high blood pressure.

Colleen Farrell Colleen Farrell (1 Posts)

Contributing Writer Emeritus

Harvard Medical School

Colleen Farrell is a fourth year medical student at Harvard Medical School. She is a member of the Student Leadership Committee of the Harvard Center for Primary Care, a guest editor of the AMA Journal of Ethics, and plays violin in the Longwood Symphony Orchestra, Boston's medical community orchestra. She is currently writing a memoir about her medical education. She plans to pursue a career in primary care.