One of the most interesting parts of this has been talking to parents about vaccines and some of the other routine stuff that we do for babies before they leave the hospital. It has been a good time for me to practice my spiel about vaccines and vitamin K with parents who have spent too much time on TikTok. Sometimes I’m successful in convincing hesitant parents to protect their kids against life-threatening and life-altering diseases, sometimes I am not, but the times that I am are very gratifying. Not in like an “I win” kind of way, but in a “I am doing the job that I came here to do” kind of way.
A big reason I went into medicine was not just to help heal people or cure disease, but to bridge the gap between the science of medicine and the humanity of the people in front of me. Not to prescribe meds and run blood tests just because the guidelines say so, but to help people understand why a certain med or test might be helpful, and be a resource and a guide to help them live they life that they want to live.
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