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 i went right to his office,
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, i said jerry, i hear you are
only through their clinical expertise, but by their enormous capacity for compassion. and while many of us here struggle to heal within those hospital walls, a movement coalesced throughout our city, state and country. boston strong a simple phrase with a not so simple meaning became our uniting call. it symbolized our communal determination to spread compassion, generosity, unity and pride. it is the firefighter running towards danger and the police officer ensuring our safety. but it s also the quiet moments, individual snap shots of grace. it s the countless hours our families spent by our bedsides sometimes in silence as they offered their love by their
rehabilitation. while many of us here struggled to heal within those hospital walls, a moment coalesced through out our city, state and country. boston strong. a simple phrase with a not so simple meaning, became our uniting call. it s symbolizes our communal determination to spread compassion, generosity, unity and pride. it is the firefighter running toward danger. and the police officer ensuring our safety. but it is also the quiet moments. individual snapshots of grace. it s the countless hours our families spent by our bedsides. sometimes in silence. as they offered their love by their presence alone.