My feelings of superiority were replaced by a sense of kinship
In the summer of my first year of college, I did an internship as a nursing attendant in a rehab hospital’s stroke unit.
As a premed student, I had little idea of what it meant to be a physician. But that didn’t stop me from feeling slightly superior to others who weren’t on the same path. Although I didn’t know how to take someone’s blood pressure, I often treated friends to …