How Many Years to Become a Doctor? The Decade-Long Journey from Aspiration to Stethoscope
The first time Dr. Amara Okoro, a Nigerian-born surgeon now practicing in Toronto, held a scalpel, she was 28 years old—but the journey to that moment had begun decades earlier, in a cramped classroom in Lagos, where she memorized Latin anatomical terms under flickering fluorescent lights. For millions like her, the question “how many years […]