The Hidden Decade: A Deep Dive Into How Long It Really Takes to Become a Doctor—and What It Demands of You
The first time Dr. Amara Okoro, a Nigerian-born cardiologist now practicing in New York, walked into her anatomy lab, she was 22 years old. The cadaver before her—a man in his late 60s—lay under fluorescent lights, his veins meticulously mapped in her textbook. She remembers the weight of the scalpel in her hand, the way […]