![]() I couldn't stand the feeling of being a part of a system that was cumbersome and ineffective, I couldn't stand my heart breaking, and I wanted to want to be anything other than a doctor. A newborn died of complications from seizures right in front of me, and a two week old baby died of malnutrition as we watched him wither away in an incubator. In the span of a week, I had seen two babies die. It was the summer after my freshman year of college and I was volunteering in an outpatient pediatric ward. ![]() ![]() "In my business, you can lose big, but sometimes you win big, too." So begins page 87 of the book that made me go to medical school. We asked medical student (and SMS-Unplugged contributor) Natalia Birgisson to offer some suggestions. Editor's note: Over the last several months, numerous young Scope readers have inquired about which books they should be reading to prepare for a potential future in medicine.
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