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The College of New Jersey Magazine
PRAIRIE
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To be a
great doctor
Joshua Lerman is not leaving his goals
in medicine up for interpretation.
Joshua Lerman '24 aspires to be
a good doctor, and he is working
diligently to become one. But early in
his training, he's learning that being
"good" is more than acing the MCAT.
"While a good doctor might have an
intellectual mind, surgeon's hands, or
years of experience, a great doctor also
has heart," Lerman says.
It's a value he recognized firsthand
when, for a week last year, he
accompanied a team of doctors and
nurses from Healing the Children New
Jersey on an ophthalmology mission
trip to the Dominican Republic. The
team performed 37 eye surgeries and
prescribed nearly 100 pairs of glasses
to pediatric and adult patients who
