They Cut Me Off In Med School—Until They Saw My Name On The ER Badge

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No questions. No appeal. A verdict passed in absentia.

Survival

The following months blurred into a messy collage of survival. If my life had previously been demanding, it now became a series of tightropes stretched over a void.

I picked up extra shifts wherever I could: clerical work, tutoring underclassmen, assisting research projects that paid in continue reading …