Contributing Writer
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Nikita is a third-year medical student at Georgetown University School of Medicine with an interest in clinical reasoning, medical education, and foreign languages. In 2018, she graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Science in neurobiology. Her writing touches on narrative medicine, and strives to explore how medical trainees can maintain a humanistic perspective in healthcare.
While the professor moved to the next slide, my face visibly blanched. All I could hear was the drowning sound of my own heartbeat thumping in my ears. Is this true? I thought. Nothing we can do? Only five years of survival? Did this apply to my grandpa Baba? But Baba has been sick for six years!
Contributing Writer
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Nikita is a third-year medical student at Georgetown University School of Medicine with an interest in clinical reasoning, medical education, and foreign languages. In 2018, she graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Science in neurobiology. Her writing touches on narrative medicine, and strives to explore how medical trainees can maintain a humanistic perspective in healthcare.
