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When medical school didn't prepare you to pronounce your field's founders

I'm studying for my medical boards and I keep encountering Islamic physician names I can't pronounce and I wish someone had taught me this properly.

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Professional competence feels incomplete when fundamental historical figures remain linguistically and culturally inaccessible.

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