#  Medicine 

 



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[**Luke Messac '08**](/luke-messac-08)**, Emergency Medicine Resident Physician**  
Thesis Title: *Lazarus at America's Doorstep: Explaining U.S. Federal Appropriations for Global HIV/AIDS Programs*

“Almost every day, it seems, I hear Marx or Smith or de Beauvoir invoked, often with great laziness and imprecision. I'm so glad I had the rare opportunity to read these works deeply, with expert guidance. … Today I am an emergency medicine doctor in Rhode Island. Not too many of my colleagues know what Social Studies is, but as one of my favorite physician mentors once said when I told him what I had studied in college, ‘Those in the know, know.’”

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[**Rebecca Podolsky '03**](/rebecca-podolsky-03)**, Obsetrician-Gynecologist**  
Thesis Title: *Uncertain Victory: The Pro-Choice Movement, 1992-2000*

“The highlight of my experience in Social Studies was researching and writing my senior thesis about the reproductive rights movement. I loved immersing myself in the subject matter I found so fascinating. Ultimately, this experience also led me (albeit in a pretty roundabout way) to my career in medicine.”

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[**Krishnan Subrahmanian '03**](/krishnan-subrahmanian-03)**, Pediatrician**  
Thesis Title: *Send In the Clowns: Humor, Medicine, and the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit*

“On countless occasions, from my marriage to my work with young people to conversations at the coffee shop, the readings, the methods and the lessons of Social Studies have offered me a chance connect with other human beings about really core tenets such as faith, freedom, love and meaning.”