PERSONAL NARRATIVE

Please enjoy these pieces from our LMSA community!

The winners for this category are:
1st: "Don't Forget About Mom” by Richard Suarez
2nd: “Could you please see this patient? He speaks Spanish only.” by Xiomara Nieves-Alvarado, MD
3rd: "A Minority within a Minority: My Path to Medical School as a DACA Recipient" by García AJ

Congratulations, everyone!

Patricio Ruano, MS2 Tears stream down my cheeks as I gaze out of my medical school’s building at the city below. As the sun rested on the...

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García AJ Some of my earliest memories include dinnertime conversations with my family that emphasized the importance of not sharing our...

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Andrea V. Parra Jaimes, MS3 Have you ever felt like an outsider? At some point, people feel out of place, an isolating feeling. It has...

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Richard Suarez, MS3 Don’t forget about mom. Life is a fickle, fragile thing and I am no stranger to its finite nature. In every stage of...

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Cassidy Meza, MS2 “I just… stumbled my way into medical school.” That was my feeling about attending medical school when I first began....

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Xiomara Nieves-Alvarado, MD I was born on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico. We speak Spanish, and we learn to speak English, but our...

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Valeria Mendoza, MS3 I am in my last week of my OBGYN rotation and I can confidently say that this has been the most rewarding,...

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