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Journeys User4November 4, 2020October 29, 2020Cross-cultural Experience, My Story, Words of WisdomCOVID-19, India, Missouri, Neurology, PGY4

Doctors with Borders

By Dr. Uttara Koul

The past eight months have been a summation of the five stages of grief:

- - - - Stage 1: Denial – there’s a viral outbreak? Hmm. It won’t reach us.
        
        Stage 2: Anger – why aren’t people taking the lockdown strictly? Why is everyone hoarding toilet paper?
        
        Stage 3: Bargaining – a vaccine will be released any day now, right?
        
        Stage 4: Depression – all social engagements are postponed indefinitely. So many people have lost their lives! This is heartbreaking!
        
        Stage 5: Acceptance – this is the new normal.

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Journeys User4August 25, 2020September 8, 2021Cross-cultural Experience, My StoryCOVID-19, Family Medicine, Ohio, PGY4, Preventative Medicine, Saudi Arabia

Engineering Medicine Inside Out

By Dr. Wail Yar

I grew up in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, thousands of miles away in the Middle East. I went to high school with a dream that I would become a petroleum engineer. I never thought that I would be a physician; I was scared from seeing blood, and I was afraid to touch a patient. When I graduated from high school, I applied to the best scholarship program in the country, and I got accepted to study petroleum engineering abroad. At the same time, I applied to King Abdulaziz University College of Medicine in Saudi Arabia, because it is one of the best schools in the country. I applied, not because I was forced to do so by my family, but I did it to prove that I could be a doctor, although at that time I didn’t want to be one.

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