No problem! As of now, I would like to specialize in some kind of surgery but that can change at any moment haha. I do not see a therapist anymore, but I did see one throughout high school and start of college. I just felt like it was not helping anymore but I have been thinking about going back to a therapist. One of the things that I found relaxes me is diaphragmatic breathing. I learned this at one of my therapy sessions in this past and found that it really helped me calm down the nerves of med school interviews. You can youtube it if you are interested! As for my stutter and patients, I have found that having a stutter makes you more human and approachable to patients. I'm only a second year so I have limited patient contact right now. Though, I have received feedback from standardized patients that the stutter added to the personal and empathetic side of the encounter. I realize that this is only one person's opinion and there are bound to be many patients out there who will think the opposite, but it is things like this that really build my confidence that I can actually become a successful physician someday. Stuttering is not really covered in med school that much. The most we learned that it was a speech disorder in the DSM V. But we do learn in our anatomy class about all the muscles and organs involved in voice production. The most I could give you is a guess on stuttering. I honestly think that stuttering is a mix between psychiatric and pathological disease. I think there is something inherently wrong with our neuronal pathways and it is further reinforced with our anxiety of speaking. Sorry I could not give you a more scientific answer! Oh and as far as medication, unfortunately I have not learned or read about any. Maybe anxiety drugs could help, but nothing right now can induce fluency. We have to keep crossing our fingers for that to happen!