Contributing Writer Emeritus
Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College
I'm a Class of 2014 undergraduate at Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College in Sion, Mumbai, India. I stumbled into medicine and found that I love it. I intend to pursue an MD in internal medicine. Most patients I encounter are poor, illiterate and clueless about their condition; counselling and reassuring them is something I look forward to doing every day.
We who were always overachievers. Who missed the dusk of our adolescence solving multiple-choice questions. We who began our adult lives spending alternate days with corpses. Who carry bones in our bags and books that break our backs. Who spend the best years of youth in the grime of wards. Who have already witnessed a lifetime’s share of deaths. Who learn about depression but fail to recognise it in ourselves. We who have no definite …
Contributing Writer Emeritus
Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College
I'm a Class of 2014 undergraduate at Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College in Sion, Mumbai, India. I stumbled into medicine and found that I love it. I intend to pursue an MD in internal medicine. Most patients I encounter are poor, illiterate and clueless about their condition; counselling and reassuring them is something I look forward to doing every day.
