How flight surgeon training mirrors medical residency stress
The room went quiet the way rooms do before something consequential, when conversation thins and all you can hear is the pulse in your ears.
“Captain Kumar,” the instructor said, “you have an in-flight engine failure. What do you do?”
I stood at attention, spine locked, as my classmates turned toward me with the focused expectation of a clinical team evaluating a tenuous presentation. A bead of sweat slid down my temple. …
