Caring for Patients as a Medical Student in the Same Penn ALS Clinic Where My Dad Received Care
“Today I returned to the same ALS clinic where my dad was diagnosed. The same exam room. But this time…”
Yentli returned to the Penn ALS clinic — the same clinic, possibly the same exam room, where her father Frank Albrecht was diagnosed. This time she was on the other side: a medical student, caring for patients. She shares what it felt like to stand in that space as a future neurologist rather than a grieving daughter, and what it means to carry both roles at once.
This is the intersection of the personal and the professional that defines Yentli’s path: she is not just training to become a physician-scientist. She is training to save patients who look like her father. And one day, perhaps, like herself.