Ishani Ganguli

Ishani Ganguli is a journalist and a second-year resident physician in internal medicine/primary care at Massachusetts General Hospital. She studied biochemistry and Spanish at Harvard College and received her medical degree at Harvard Medical School in 2011. Ishani has written about science, medicine, and health policy for publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times, ABC News, The New England Journal of Medicine, and The Scientist. She blogs at Short White Coat.  Short white coats are the traditional attire for medical students in the United States, but at Massachusetts General Hospital, students and doctors at all levels of experience wear them to symbolize their commitment to lifelong learning. Her blogs are reprinted on healthydebate with the permission of the author.  Follow Ishani on Twitter @IshaniG.