Ashna Jain

Jun 20, 2024 | opmed.doximity.com | Heather Kristin Schopper |Ryan Richman |Ashna Jain

A two-hour drive. A subway ride. Two flights. Land at 1 a.m. Crash for a few hours. Another flight. A death-defying hour-long taxi ride winding through the mountains at alarming speed, passing trucks on blind curves, traversing fault lines that made the road shift and heave. All this to make it to a small town in southern Ecuador for a marathon week of humanitarian surgery with early mornings and late nights, four or five cases a day, and power outages with a patient on the table.

Jun 20, 2024 | opmed.doximity.com | Ryan Richman |Ashna Jain |Abraham Kim

Why AI Won’t Replace Physicians Any Time Soon (or, The Value of Being There in Person)There’s a patient who comes to see me every week. Every time we part ways, I say, “OK Susan! See you in a month!” But inevitably, she’ll call on a morning when she knows I’m in the office and my staff will fit her in. She likes to tell me about what she did with her granddaughter that week. She doesn’t have anything terribly wrong with her. She just wants some reassurance.

Jun 18, 2024 | opmed.doximity.com | Ryan Richman |Ashna Jain |Abraham Kim |Michaela Barry

Unless you’re from a very specific geographic region, the name New York probably conjures images of skyscrapers, subways, restaurants, and a city that never sleeps. Also traffic, walls of odd smells, and rats scurrying around piles of sidewalk garbage. All these pictures are accurate, but forget that New York isn’t just New York City, but a whole state, which features trees, beaches, and farms.

Jun 18, 2024 | opmed.doximity.com | Ashna Jain |Abraham Kim |Michaela Barry |Frances Mei Hardin

“She loves eating 'girl dinner' every night," my patient's mom proclaimed while rolling her eyes. I had asked if her 13-year-old was a picky eater at her annual well check. I was confused by what the mom meant until I remembered a recent TikTok that I had seen where a group of girls were eating nuts, popcorn, fruit, and chocolate for dinner with the words girl dinner in a sparkly font written across the video.

Jun 14, 2023 | hercampus.com | Ashna Jain

As finals season approaches faster than ever, I can personally speculate that it’s going to hit much harder than any other finals season before, especially because I spent the last seven weeks being a full-time sorority girl. I’ve been to every class and every mixer, and I am sad to report that I remember nothing from any of those! All things aside, though, it is crucial to stay motivated and push through this last chunk of the semester to finish strong.