Ethel Weld, MD - The Monkeyfish Within Us

Observing primitive reflexes in the newborn nursery.
Ethel Weld was born the second of five siblings in Cambridge, MA. She studied French, Chinese, and History in college at NYU. Then she lived in Taipei, Taiwan, for a year and a half after college, working in a Traditional Chinese Medicine clinic and studying wing-chun kung fu. After this she lived in San Francisco, California studying gap junction channelopathies in sporadic non-syndromic deafness. She attended medical school at the University of Chicago, during which she did a Schweitzer fellowship in pediatrics and surgery at the Schweitzer Hospital in Lambarene, Gabon. She is currently in the third year of a 4-year combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at University of Maryland and Veterans Administration Maryland Healthcare System. She meticulously maintains a top-ten list of restaurants in Baltimore, broken down by food genre and subcategories such as “Best Healthy-seeming Breakfast Sandwich” and “Best Slightly Seedy Breakfast Sandwich”.

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