of it in hospitals in a satisfactory human suffering, and if you are some hot shot kid from harvard, it beats the callousness out of you in the sense that you are the master of the world and it humbles you in many ways. it makes you appreciate human life. it makes everything you write about and talk about less abstract. here i was approaching the last year of my residency. and i thought i don t really want to continue to do this. i liked what i did. i was okay at what i did. i did research. but my heart wasn t in it and i felt there was a world happening out there, outside the hospital walls but there was no way to get from here to there. and pure, shear blind certain diserendipitous luck. one of the professors at harvard i had written a paper on bipolar disease. out of the blue i got appointed by jimmy carter national institutes of health. the second i heard about it
of it in hospitals in a satisfactory human suffering, and if you are some hot shot kid from harvard, it beats the callousness out of you in the sense that you are the master of the world and it humbles you in many ways. it makes you appreciate human life. it makes everything you write about and talk about less abstract. here i was approaching the last year of my residency. and i thought i don t really want to continue to do this. i liked what i did. i was okay at what i did. i did research. but my heart wasn t in it and i felt there was a world happening out there, outside the hospital walls but there was no way to get from here to there. and pure, shear blind certain diserendipitous luck. one of the professors at harvard i had written a paper on bipolar disease. out of the blue i got appointed by jimmy carter national institutes of health. the second i heard about it
he goes to harvard middle medicl school. he really was straddling those two disciplines. look what he chooses in his medical specialty. i studied politics and philosophy before. and i had this feeling this is too abstract. i should be doing something serious with my life, you know, a kind of real job in the real world with real facts. not ohio state ohio hoyty toyot. not of this airy fairy stuff. get real with life. i decided to go to medical school. but i wanted to do something that i thought would be sophisticated and intellectual and in some ways abstract. i was looking for something halfway between the reality of medicine and the elegance, if you like, of philosophy. so psychiatry was the obvious thing. i was lucky because it was probably the easiest branch of medicine for me to do once i was hurt.
he goes to harvard middle medicl school. he really was straddling those two disciplines. look what he chooses in his medical specialty. i studied politics and philosophy before. and i had this feeling this is too abstract. i should be doing something serious with my life, you know, a kind of real job in the real world with real facts. not ohio state ohio hoyty toyot. not of this airy fairy stuff. get real with life. i decided to go to medical school. but i wanted to do something that i thought would be sophisticated and intellectual and in some ways abstract. i was looking for something halfway between the reality of medicine and the elegance, if you like, of philosophy. so psychiatry was the obvious thing. i was lucky because it was probably the easiest branch of medicine for me to do once i was hurt. but it worked out that i
of it in hospitals in a satisfactory human suffering, and if you are some hot shot kid from harvard, it beats the callousness out of you in the sense that you are the master of the world and it humbles you in many ways. it makes you appreciate human life. it makes everything you write about and talk about less abstract. here i was approaching the last year of my residency. and i thought i don t really want to continue to do this. i liked what i did. i was okay at what i did. i did research. but my heart wasn t in it and i felt there was a world happening out there, outside the hospital walls but there was no way to get from here to there. and pure, shear blind certain diserendipitous luck. one of the professors at harvard i had written a paper on bipolar disease. out of the blue i got appointed by jimmy carter national institutes of health. the second i heard about it i went right to his office,