When your patients’ misadventures are more interesting than their medical problems

Doctors come from different backgrounds, and we all start medical school with various life experiences. I’m an emergency medicine specialist, but I actually started off as a journalism major.
I wanted to write about people and their life stories.
I wanted to travel and photograph what the world had to offer.
Then, having lost my journalism job and getting hired as a nursing home receptionist, I ended up doing CPR for the first time.