Over the next two weeks in hospitals and medical centers across the country, new medical school graduates will begin their internship. Among their many worries ”” moving to a new city, meeting new colleagues, adjusting to medical training ”” is a more profound, existential concern that had once plagued me.
Do I have to lose my self in order to become the doctor I want to be?
I learned the answer to that question partway through my internship. Not in the hospital but in the checkout line of a local grocery store…