Profiles: Benjamin Lebwohl, MD, MS

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I have been fortunate to be the recipient of superb mentorship for as long as I can remember. My father, Oscar Lebwohl, is a gastroenterologist who took home with him only the good aspects of medicine as I was growing up: stories about rewarding patient encounters, anecdotes about his interesting colleagues, and the occasional gift basket from a grateful patient. The New England Journal of Medicine was delivered to our home each week; in high school, I would usually check out the regular “Images in Clinical Medicine” feature and would often scan the article titles, occasionally understanding at least a few words of each. This always kept medicine in the forefront of my mind as a career choice. …