Saving lives, improving health, and preventing disease go to the core of our fear of dying. It stands to reason that the people doing it practice a noble profession. Sacrificing decades to save people is as noble as it gets. Except that’s not exactly what doctors think about when
A big problem with medical school is that it lasts for ages. By the time you become a baby doctor, you’re in your mid- to late-20s. In the time it takes to fully train a doctor, a child could be born and reach 5th grade. But those years are
Medicine is hard, sacrifice is required, sleepless nights are always in stock. Awesome. When you start medicine you know all this. What you might not know is why you actually chose medicine. There’s so much information to unpack in the “how” that we forget about the “why”. Is it
One of my mentors is also an amateur pilot. He once told me that it’s easier to operate on people than fly a plane. That seemed odd and untrue. But he wasn’t making a point about technical skill or one’s ability to gain it, but rather about
You’re at risk. If you’re a medical student or a doctor, you may think your great personality is its own fortress, but medicine is a chronically inflamed environment, and you risk changing for the worse. You will, in fact, change. The quicker you understand why, the better positioned