Sonia Singh

Jul 8, 2024 | opmed.doximity.com | Helia Hosseini |Brian B Gilmer |Lauro Amezcua-Patino |Sonia Singh

It’s a beautiful summer day in Santa Monica. I’m sitting in the backyard of Dr. G’s house, an MD/PhD turned entrepreneur who proofread my medical school application and helped me prepare for my interviews. I’m an Iranian immigrant who at that time had been in the U.S. for two years, and my premed advisors were Reddit and Student Doctor Network users for the most part. So, I would absorb any mentorship from a live human being like a sponge.

Jul 8, 2024 | opmed.doximity.com | Brian B Gilmer |Helia Hosseini |Lauro Amezcua-Patino |Sonia Singh

“I’m hanging up my spurs.”It was cocktail hour at the fellowship reunion meeting. But the words were not from my mentor at the end of a long and storied career. The words were from another alumni who was my age. I was shocked. He was quietly leaving clinical practice. His hospital had some administrative changes, a merger, and somewhere in the process, they closed his entire department.