Writing
I write about medicine the way I try to practice it: with honesty, curiosity, and deep attention to the human beings at the center of it. My essays explore what it means to become a physician, to carry the weight of a patient's suffering, to navigate race and identity in American medicine, and to find purpose in a profession that demands everything you have. My work has appeared in STAT News, the Harvard Kennedy School Review, and the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Aspiring Docs Diaries.
STAT NEWS · JUNE 2020
A co-authored essay arguing that physician advocacy must extend to police brutality, framing racial violence as a public health crisis demanding the medical community's urgent attention.
ASPIRING DOCS DIARIES · OCTOBER 2018
A young medical student confronts the unexpected death of one of his first patients, and begins to understand that the hospital is not always a place where people get well.
ASPIRING DOCS DIARIES · OCTOBER 2018
A medical student witnesses a senior resident's private grief after a tragic birth outcome, and grapples with what it means to feel — and to lose — as a physician in training.
ASPIRING DOCS DIARIES · NOVEMBER 2018
A reflection on the emotional weight of caring for a young patient with an eating disorder, and what her case revealed about the cost of belief, hope, and what it truly means to be a physician.
HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL REVIEW · JANUARY 2017
A personal and political meditation on what it meant — and what it didn't mean — to be represented by the first Black president, written at the close of the Obama era.