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‘I understand people feeling desperate’: MD candidate heads to ER

McCarron says roots prepared him for emergency medicine

by Kristina Sauerwein•May 10, 2019

Medical student Weston McCarron (right), practices performing an ultrasound with Evan Schwarz, MD

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Kristina Sauerwein

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Kristina covers pediatrics, surgery, medical education and student life. In 2020, she received a gold Robert G. Fenley Writing Award for general staff writing from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and in 2019, she received the silver award. Kristina is an author and former reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Los Angeles Times, where she was part of a team of journalists that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 for breaking news. Additionally, she covered the 2014 Ferguson unrest for TIME magazine and, for eight years, wrote a popular parenting column for BabyCenter.com.

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