Brittani Jackson
Dose of Reality
Final Exam
It ended much the same way it began. On this Friday, during the last lecture of our first year of med school, we were a sea of white in West Lecture Hall. The school year was ending with one last pati...
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Infectious
Even though it was only the second week of the Infectious Disease sequence, people were already beginning to get a little tired of the routine. Each morning started at 8am with 2 ½ hours of lecture...
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Interview Day
I find it interesting, and more than a little curious, that the standard uniform for interviewing is strikingly similar to the standard uniform for funerals.
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Learning to Speak
I usually feel like an impostor when I'm wearing my white coat. This day was no different. As I walked with my classmates down the corridor, I wondered if anyone else felt that way. But then again, it...
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Looking Ahead
Focusing so much of my energy on school, I have to admit that autumn sort of snuck up on me. But rolling down the winding roads leading out of Ann Arbor the other day gave me a moment to appreciate th...
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An Introduction to Living and Dying
Around the time he told me to picture roots sprouting from the soles of my feet he started to lose me. In fact, if you had told me when I woke up last Monday morning that I'd utilize any part of my da...
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A Dose of Reality
According to Dr. Kumagai, something "fundamentally changed" in us the moment we got our acceptance letters to the University of Michigan. Upon hearing this, my first instinct was to reject the n...