36: Antony Alvarado, MS3 at UCLA/Charles R. Drew University Medical Education Pathway
What happens when the patient becomes the medical student, and then sets out to become the surgeon who treated him? Join host Deana Golini as she sits down with Antony Alvarado, a third-year student in the UCLA and Charles R. Drew University Medical Education Program and a two-time survivor of pediatric brain cancer. Antony was diagnosed at nine years old in January 2010, after a week of small headaches turned into an emergency CT scan and an active bleed. He spent nearly a month in the hospital, and somewhere in there decided that if he made it out, he would pursue medicine. He spent years…
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