This is it. I have waited this moment my whole life. When answering the question of 'what I want to be when I grow up', all good little boys and girls at some stage in their lives, answer with enthusiastic passion that they want to be a doctor and take care of sick people. Being an apparently banana Asian nerd and having a doctor daddy, I too had wanted to be a doctor since I was still a blastula of omnipotent stem cells dividing away.
The past four years had gone by quickly. I was still getting over the surprise of Med school acceptance letter, then with a blink of an eye, I was walking across the stage with a smirk on my face and a degree in my hands. No, not just the past four years, I have been preparing for this my whole life. I have dreamed the dream, taken the Oath, now my time to get on the court.
Tomorrow morning I will wake up early, walk into the hospital where I've been calling home for the past 4 years as a different person. I will have a different badge, a different power, a different responsibility. I will start a brand new era of my life, turn a blank new page. Despite all the sexy medical dramas on TV and rosy fantasies that people have about the profession; I am going to find out for myself, first hand, what's it like to be an intern. Tomorrow.
Right now I just need to hope that I fall asleep tonight.
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