Last year, the Huffington Post published a story on my trouble with student loans, and since then I am happy to report that my situation has dramatically improved. My debt is still somewhere around $250,000. But that is not the point of this update. I want to focus...

I'm a medical resident with $250,000 of medical student debt. Having so much debt is scary. But even more frightening is the callous and ruthless behavior of my private lender, which has made a bad situation a whole lot worse.

Medical student loans are a special kind of student...