Primary care: I love the variety and the intimacy of the problems that are placed before me

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They sit before me on the cold table, their expressions so often betraying shame or fear, dismay at their body’s failings, longing for reassurance or a cure. I understand the weight of this strange job that deals in sickness and health, life, and death. Mostly in fifteen-minute intervals.

Share Tweet Share An excerpt from Becoming Doctors 25 Years Later: Twenty five physicians sharing the journey from medical student to retirement . If I get out of bed now, I can squeeze in that ten-minute morning yoga routine on YouTube. But it feels so nice lying here, sunlight streaming in, sips of coffee warming my body and boosting my heart rate up a notch. If I did anything right in life, it was marrying a man who brings a tumbler of fresh coffee to my bedside every morning. I sip and enjoy the stillness. The boys must be busy on their devices. Another twenty minutes or so before I have t

Primary care: I love the variety and the intimacy of the problems that are placed before me

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