A happy moment

[Guest guest]

Group,I’m not sure if any of you remember, but about 7 years ago I hired a neighbor and patient of mine to work in my office doing some database analysis. She only worked a short amount of time because her goal was to continue on to medical school. She is my age (46 now) and had quite an interesting life journey, but even though she was older than a typical student and the mother of 4 wonderful kids, she was determined to become a physician. Well, in 8 days, she graduates AOA from the local medical school and will continue her journey as a Family Medicine intern at the residency right around the corner from my office. I bring it up because I find it to be a wonderful and rare experience to watch someone go from neighbor to patient to employee to medical student (she rotated through my office as a first and second year) to now a colleague! Too often the everyday grind wears us down until we are uncertain as to whether medicine is our calling. But on the 20th anniversary of my own graduation from medical school, I have the pleasure of watching someone who has worked her whole life to do what we do finally realize her dream. How wonderful and inspiring.