Kate did not want to specialize in psychiatry. “It just doesn’t grab me,” she said. I appreciated her candor, since most medical students profess a passing interest in psychiatry, or do so at least until their evaluations are in. I knew the statistics—less than 5% of medical students choose to specialize in psychiatry. We were, it seemed to me sometimes, the pariahs of the medical community. But Kate was...
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