In the fall of 2017, we took our very first and likely last Caribbean cruise. We are the kind of people who have to try everything once, even if we know it isn’t exactly our cup of tea. Our cruise was the classic Caribbean booze cruise experience. I’m still glad that we went, but I … More 48 hours in the Dominican Republic
I spent a week in the Dominican Republic along the Haitian border as a first year medical student. I knew just enough medicine to know when something was wrong, but not quite enough to know how to treat ailments. A few things we could do solo, triaging patients after we took vital signs, organizing the … More Dominican Republic:: Introspection
This vacation came at a much needed time. We both had just finished three months of laborious rotations; ward months in the hospital and night float rotations that felt never ending. We were burnt out, our empathy lagging long ago. We needed this vacation tremendously, for our sanity. We opted to join the “cruisers” for … More Caribbean Cruise