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Hi, I was not a doctor but a physicist with a mild stutter. Of course I had to speak in small meetings and conferences, which was difficult, but most of my time was spent in front of a computer (in hindsight, maybe by choice). I can appreciate it must be much more difficult for you as a medical student. I had a very unusual experience, I had a bad stroke 3 years ago and the only 'deficit' I've experienced is that my stuttering disappeared. I'm now looking into whether that experience could help others (no, I am not proposing giving stutterers strokes). So could you try the following: There is an interesting paper by Prof. Eric Jackson (NYU), “Adults who stutter do not stutter during private speech”, Journal of Fluency Disorders 70(2021) p. 105878. In his study, he convinced people who stutter that their speech would not be heard. Under those conditions, all of his 24 subjects were completely fluent. So my question to you is: if you can find a place where you really know that you are completely alone, if you then take out a book and start reading aloud, are you fluent? Irrespective of what your answer is, best of luck to you going forward! If you want to read further, I would suggest the Bible of stuttering research, "A handbook on stuttering 7th Edition" by Bloodstein et al. It is expensive but your library might have it.