How listening makes you a better doctor before your first prescription
Before I ever introduced myself as a future doctor, I was a listener.
Not because someone told me that listening was important in medicine, but because, as a first-year student, I quickly realized I had no answers—but I did have ears. And heart. And a quiet seat at the edge of patient stories and preceptor reflections.
In the early days of medical school, everything felt unfamiliar. The terms, the pace, the sense …
