Dr. Jen Pratt was only 11 years old when an unrelenting pain in her knee landed her in the pediatrician's office. After an X-ray revealed that a tumor was growing in her femur, her entire world was ...

Like many of the almost 100,000 medical students in the U.S., I enrolled in medical school having grown up infatuated with the idea of becoming a physician. I idolized the many doctors that had cared ...