Vanessa Kady is a fourth year medical student at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in Miami, FL Class of 2026. In 2019, she graduated from the University of Central Florida with a Bachelor of Science in health sciences and minor in psychology. She enjoys working out, reading, and the beach in her free time. After graduating medical school, Vanessa would like to pursue a career in family medicine.
There’s a room down the hall where a woman sits in silence, a shadow of herself, caught between jobs, between her husband’s labored breaths— the shallow rise and fall of waiting. They call it hospice, but only for those whose time they deem nearly spent. Yet her husband, with days stretched tight as thread, fails to meet the protocol, and now he’s slipping through the cracks of criteria, as if life were a ledger to …
Vanessa Kady is a fourth year medical student at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in Miami, FL Class of 2026. In 2019, she graduated from the University of Central Florida with a Bachelor of Science in health sciences and minor in psychology. She enjoys working out, reading, and the beach in her free time. After graduating medical school, Vanessa would like to pursue a career in family medicine.
