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Thursday, September 26, 2019

The Power of Mentorship

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Author: Alexandria Gregory, MD
AAEM/RSA Social Media & Publications Committee Chair
Originally published: Common Sense
July/August 2019 

I fell in love with emergency medicine before medical school. Truth be told, I had been hooked on EM since the first time I watched “ER” when I was ten years old. But as I entered college and became pre-med in earnest, I started to wonder if perhaps another specialty might be right for me. That was until I started working as a scribe in the ED. It was there that I fell in love with emergency medicine all over again, and this time for better reasons than I had seen on television. Above all, though, were the people.