Ideas from the wards, the lab, and everywhere in between. Reflections on training, research, and navigating this beautifully complicated career we've chosen.
6 posts
6 posts
745,000 people died in 2016 from working too much. I spent six weeks measuring what my own sixty-hour weeks were doing to me, and the cost was nowhere I expected.
Somewhere in the world today, a doctor will refuse to tell a mother whether she's carrying a boy or a girl. Not because the scan was unclear. Because the law is right.
I left home at eighteen to chase a dream, and I caught it. This is not a story about a dream that didn't work out. It's about what I wasn't watching.
Most of the moments worth doing this job for never make it into a patient's records.
Every version of this story I've read skips from the failure to the comeback and pretends the silence in between didn't happen.
Why domain knowledge matters more than technical skill. And why the wall in the middle isn't a stop sign, it's a sign you're halfway through.
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