Balancing my work as a doctor and my work as an activist is getting harder and harder

Balancing my work as a doctor and my work as an activist is getting harder and harder


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Next week I am supposed to take the third and final exam I need to pass in order to practice medicine independently. I don’t know if I can do it with a clear conscience. I was first


scheduled to sit for the exam in November, around the time of the presidential election. I was helping our hospitalized patients vote through the Social Justice Coalition at Cambridge Health


Alliance and trying to study at the same time. When I woke up to Donald Trump as our new president, I realized that my activism was just beginning. The test would have to wait. STAT+


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