As we enter a new year, many people are inspired to adopt healthier lifestyles, often with weight loss as a central goal. The statistics...

On this beautiful sunny Sunday in Chicago, I sit in my resident workroom on a call shift. C-c-c-all. So boring and unfortunate, you...

Seemingly with a few blinks of an eye, I am half way through Family Medicine residency. As my inbox collects recruitment emails, I am...

The great and less-than-great things about Lincoln Park and Chicago.

With the hopes of going somewhere warm for about a week but also facing the reality of my resident physician salary, I scrolled through...

What is behind the prevalence of muscle knots around the scapula?

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It has been a minute, y’all. I graduated medical school and moved to Chicago to begin Family Medicine residency! A blog post about this...

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Talking about fourth year rotations, interviewing for residency, and ranking.

Medical school education is expansive. Some doctors will look back and scoff at the minutiae: how much did we really need to know about...

It’s the crux of humorous Tik Tok comments regarding an amped up guy or gal. At the micro level, we are bamboozled by the aggression of...

Omicron is surging. The efficacy of existing vaccines are in question, but the medical community still highly regards the shots. In less...

With the recent spike in Delta variant cases, we are once again reminded of how COVID-19 affected our lives in those scary March 2020...

The 64 gigs on my iPhone 8 weren't cutting it anymore. I grew tired with the constant pop-ups yelling at me for not having enough...

It has been a year. It really has. After two years of battling straight-up demons in the form of exams, PowerPoints, and sleepless...

Hello friends! With the country slowly recovering from COVID-19 and an overwhelming sprint to get people vaccinated, I'd like to...

My Bluetooth speaker beeped. During an enjoyable bike ride in the small rural Upstate NY town where I was doing my third year rotations,...

The following writing sample is from an assignment in my third year Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine course. This was written within 24...

Greetings. For those who don't know me, my name is Ezra, and this is my blog. On a crisp Long Island night in December 2018, I exhaled in...