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“Do nothing” is a legitimate prescription when you’ve been grinding since orientation.
It’s freeform Friday on the pod, which means the Iowa City parking situation is excellent, the rising M2s are bored and slightly guilty about it, and absolutely willing to tell a full story about a stranded boat. As their first year in medical school recedes into their past, Ellie Johnson, Braiden DeSchryver, Sarvin Mousakhani, Regan DeMaris, and Alana Jones join Dave for an episode that reveals the specific texture of med student summer — the productivity guilt your PI has to prescribe against, the hobbies you’ve been saving since last August, and the strange peace of Iowa City when the academic calendar stops grinding for awhile.
The episode goes deep on things that actually matter when you’re thinking about the long game: how you pick a specialty when everything in medicine is genuinely interesting, why choosing based on the attendings you love is both right and risky, and the fact that being a parent who’s in med school might make you a better student. Plus: a boat disaster at Voyageurs, a ketchup ranking conducted with scientific rigor, and a brief but sincere pitch to get Jesus on the podcast.
Episode credits:
- Producer: Dave Etler
- Co-hosts: Ellie Johnson, Braiden DeSchryver, Sarvin Mousakhani, Regan DeMaris, Alana Jones
- Production: SCP Media Lab–Anna Roger, Cyrus Barati, Isa Perez-Sandi, Zach Grissom, Sarah Upton, Srishti Mathur, David Lee, and Jacob Thompson
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