A Study that Matters

MARGARET BOTROS, MTS ’19

The daughter of Egyptian Coptic Christians, Margaret Botros focused on fulfilling the course requirements for admission to medical school as a student at Harvard College. In her senior year, though, she took a course in the study of religion, fell in love with it, and enrolled at HDS. Botros, who worked part-time at a laboratory in Massachusetts General Hospital’s Department of Nephrology, both as an undergraduate and during her first year in the MTS program, still plans to go to medical school and says that religious studies will make her a better doctor.

“Premed advisors often treat humanities as secondary and expendable luxuries, but they’re not. This is a study that matters. Religion will impact my practice and the lives of my patients. Being a doctor is not just about ‘Did you deliver treatment correctly?’ It’s about ‘Do you understand?’”

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