Month: August 2021

I proposed an idea. I guess I wasn't afraid - maybe I should have been. It wasn't so much shot down as implied that it's been a tried and failed/abandoned idea... So not quite a fear faced. But now I look like a fool. To quote Bane, "Now is not the time to fear...that comes … Continue reading Well…day 1

Ryan told me to do something that will help me grow. And I have always grown from things that scare me. So now I have to find things that scare me.

Do you know what would have been easier than trying to understand thought processes and intentions over the edits section of a word document we are playing tag with? Actually finishing my rough draft on time and sending it to him ahead of time, so we could have talked about it over the phone. Yep.

So I will say it. So I don't forget it. I have been blessed with mentors. Mentors that I am not sure I deserve. But I have been blessed anyway.

I talk a lot about my now partly apocryphal realization that I would be learning residency-level surgery-grade radiology all by myself. I think it was Clark? Or someone as influential? who when, trying to follow his zip scrolling through an axial view, I naively asked, "When do we learn how to read CT scans?" And … Continue reading The Waiting Game