Author: Sarah Bommarito

Sarah Bommarito Sarah Bommarito (1 Posts)

Contributing Writer Emeritus

Wayne State University School of Medicine


Sarah is a Class of 2016 medical student at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan. She majored in Honors English at the University of Michigan. Her interests beyond medical school include reading memoirs, baking, and travel.




The Value of Empathy in Medicine

Empathy: it’s what supposedly drives us to become physicians, and what we’re told to demonstrate through our extracurricular activities and during our interviews. We yearn for that perfect patient interaction in which we comforted or understood in a way that changed the patient’s perspective on medical care.

Sarah Bommarito Sarah Bommarito (1 Posts)

Contributing Writer Emeritus

Wayne State University School of Medicine


Sarah is a Class of 2016 medical student at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan. She majored in Honors English at the University of Michigan. Her interests beyond medical school include reading memoirs, baking, and travel.