Category: STEM
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Fernando – on thinking BIG: “I remember meeting with a former student of mine, Esteban Burchard, when he entered Stanford Medical School. I asked him what he wanted to do. He said he wanted to be a family practitioner. I told him, ‘I don’t want you to be just a family doctor. I want you…
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First-generation college student and son of Mexican farm working immigrants, on his way to becoming a primary care physician in California’s Central Valley. Geovanni Suarez grew up in the small rural town of Porterville in California’s Central Valley. His pediatrician was Ramon Resa, an abandoned farmworker boy in Central Valley who became a doctor and…
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By: Esteban Burchard, MD, MPH In June of 1995, I began my medical internship at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. I was one of the top medical students in my class at Stanford. As a result, I was selected as one of 42 interns nationwide to begin residency at Harvard’s BWH, which was…
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Arguments rarely change opinions; stories sometimes can. Maureen Dowd, in her New York Times piece, “Donald Trump, Our Foundering Father“, describes how she and her Trump-loving brother recently visited the “Founding Friends, Founding Foes” tour at Monticello where people could explore their divergent, fraught political relationships as Jefferson and Adams did back in the day.…
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Society Got It Wrong! Watch Now – RAMON RISING Film: Abandoned Boy to Doctor | Dr. Ramon Resa | Talks at Google The Migrant Child Farmworkers-Now High-Profile Professionals© documentary began as a film about Dr. Ramon Resa’s inspiring journey from abandoned boy to pediatrician. It was then entitled, Ramon Rising. This Talks at Google episode…
