A tale of two Mahsas, choice and the Iranian uprising, by Osmund Agbo Few weeks ago, I met a young woman of Iranian descent who had come for an elective hospital subspecialty rotation in our department. As with Mahsa and others that came before her, this has become more or less, a right of passage for most medical residents, in fulfillment of their pre-graduation academic requirements. I have always struggled to pronounce Iranian names correctly. As a medical resident in New York a couple of years ago, Pedram, a Persian who...