Why Healthcare Must Be an Exception to the Capitalist System

Since my first year of college, I have never questioned my commitment to becoming a doctor. I want to make the most of my privilege to give back to those most in need. As social inequity and health disparity form a vicious cycle, medicine can be a powerful tool for social justice. However, I recently went through a bit of a crisis as I began confronting just how impractically expensive our healthcare system is. How much am I really serving others if they cannot afford my treatments — if they mu

Cuts and Chats: Barbering to Doctoring

From John Koenig’s “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows,” “sonder” is defined as “the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own … an epic story that continues invisibly around you … in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.” It is this idea that made the famous Facebook page Humans of New York (HONY) so fascinating to me, to the point of a