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Becoming a Doctor – and a Mom

May 23, 2019

Video of Becoming a Doctor – and a Mom | Ngozi Monu | Weill Cornell Medicine

For Ngozi Monu, the key to success is balance. By the time she entered medical school, she was a two-time Olympian with a doctorate. She then discovered new challenges as she became a mother of two while earning her medical degree. Now Monu is working to balance her home life with her future career as an...

Generation Gap

May 22, 2019

One morning last fall, a group of second-year medical students watched an uncomfortable situation unfold. Having recently experienced some chest pain, a woman in her 80s had come to see a geriatrician, accompanied by her daughter. In a misguided attempt to help, the daughter kept interrupting and talking over her mother, who was becoming visibly anxious. After an initial assessment, the doctor asked to speak to the patient alone—and only then did he discover a...

Comic Relief

May 15, 2019

Comic actor Seth Rogen and his wife are open about how Alzheimer’s disease has affected their family: her mother suffers from its early-onset form, and by age 60 she could no longer speak. In 2012, the couple founded Hilarity for Charity, a nonprofit devoted to raising funds for research and engaging millennials in the fight against the disease. And last year, the group partnered with the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-...