So I guess my interest in biology was the reason that I came to medicine. I don’t remember when exactly it all started. I guess it was under influence of some books that I read. It was like for kids about biology, and then I got interested in genes, how they work and how they Continue reading

“I was born in the Philippines on January second, 1973 and moved here to Connecticut on November 8, 2016.   I had surgery on my left knee at 6 years-old back in the Philippines. Scissors accidentally fell on my left knee. It got worse to the point that initially the doctor there wanted to amputate my Continue reading

Both of my parents are surgeons in Venezuela, and I was with them in the OR all the time. They used to scrub me in, when I was 7. I would put my hands in the patient, and they will say, ‘Don’t touch anything, just watch, and I will do appendectomies.’ So I watched all Continue reading

“My entire life has constantly been sort of outside my comfort zone. My path has been a little winding. I was born in India and then I moved around a lot growing up. At the age of 5, my family moved to the UK where we lived for 3 years. Then we moved to Boston Continue reading

Dr. D is a board-certified internal medicine doctor originally from the Philippines.   “There are ways and means to get to where as long as you trust yourself that can do it.”  Dr. D’s path began as a nursing student and switched to the medical track after one year by doing a BS degree in biology, Continue reading