Meet Josie Pearce | STANFORD magazine
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Doctor, lawyer—why not both?
At the end of her first year of medical school, Josie Pearce, JD ’26, was studying for finals and prepping for the bar exam while also planning her wedding, which was strategically scheduled after the bar but before her second year of medical school. “There was literally no other time to get married,” says Pearce, who, as a joint JD/MD candidate, is a rarity at Stanford. “I know it seems like now, looking back on all of this, that it was so perfectly planned out. Like, I just went to law school and then applied to med school and it all worked out. But the reality—it wasn’t like that.”…
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