Senator Bernie Sanders opened his announcement of the Medicare for All Act of 2019, “Let me be as clear as I can be. Health care is a human right. Not a privilege.” The American Medical Student Association has outlined support for this idea in its governing documents as early as 1994. For over two decades,…

Figure 1 Quiz of the Week A 16-year-old male is brought to the emergency department by his father following a generalized tonic-clonic seizure. He has had these seizures regularly since early childhood, though their frequency has increased over the past two months. As an infant, he had regular episodes of apnea, which resolved at the…

Figure 1 Quiz of the Week A 58-year-old male presents to the emergency department with dyspnea, and severe chest pain that radiates to his shoulder. He has a history of alcoholism and has just finished a 4-day drinking binge. On examination, crepitus is heard on palpation of the chest wall, and his pain worsens as…

Health professionals encounter patients everyday who are unable to afford their medications. It can lead to a feeling of helplessness, for both the health provider and patient involved. But, you can take steps to put patients over profits through advocacy! Justin Mendoza, State Partnerships Manager at Families USA, shares that he was looking up a…

Figure 1 Quiz of the Week An 11-month-old male with a two-day history of irritability and lethargy is brought to the emergency department by his mother. She reports that he has vomited four times today and has had fewer wet diapers than usual. He is up to date with his vaccinations. On examination, he is…

You block off an entire Sunday afternoon to tackle the beast that is the AMCAS—the centralized medical school application. You’re clicking through the online form, filling in the boxes until you get to the page titled “Volunteering and Shadowing.” You stop there. Do you feel like you have enough exposure to the medical field for…