If I had to distill everything I've learned over the years as a patient, spouse, parent, and medical reporter into one lesson, it's this: Trust but verify.
There's always a constant fear of falling behind everyone else on the socially perpetuated race to the finish line, whether that be toward graduate school, medical school or lucrative career.
Whatever path you’ve chosen… Be it medicine, business, engineering, the humanities—whatever drives your passion. Be the last to accept the notion that the world you inherit cannot be improved.
Your haircut, the way you hold yourself says military. But your conversation when you entered the room...'Ah, bit different from my day...' said trained at Barts - so Army doctor, obvious.