A medical school experience that redefined providing care

My first experience of “providing care” did not unfold as I had imagined: after years of training, thoroughly studying everything there is to know about the human body, and being perfectly prepared to care for someone. Instead, it began quietly, with a white coat and a stethoscope that fit about as comfortably as my pseudo-physician identity, that is, to all of my friends not in medicine.

It was early in my …

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A medical school experience that redefined providing care