Three Things.

This pin reminds me to go "back to the bedside." Always.

Good morning.

I should be getting dressed for work right now but needed to get this out of my head and into this space. Three awesome things happened to me recently with regard to this blog. Thought I'd share.

Yesterday was the second day of our new interns' orientation. Imagine it --a room full of doe-eyed recent medical school grads all gearing up to be paged and referred to as "doctor." Surely they are all scared shitless.

I know I was.

Anyways.

Well. I was sitting in the back of someone's lecture yesterday and at the end this intern comes up to me. He introduces himself and then, in a rather soft spoken voice, explains to me that he was torn between Emory and another program. And that someone suggested he read my blog about Grady Hospital.

"That's how I made my decision--from reading your blog," he said matter-of-factly.

I thought my heart would explode.

I thanked him profusely. He then told me that the person who told him to read my blog was someone from the other excellent program that he was considering. The program director, even.  Yes. The profesora in Pittsburgh.

So I must say this:

Profesora? You are like an angel in my life. I cannot imagine not being your friend and trying to navigate being a professional without you in my corner. Thank you for constantly being on my side and reminding me of who I am. Thank you for being a role model and for inspiring me to always go "back to the bedside" with my learners and with myself. Our friendship makes me better -- both personally and professionally.

Next.

Another intern tells me that she was here for a visiting rotation and heard me give a lecture on "Professionalism and Humanism."  She said she never stopped thinking about it and found my blog immediately after. Then she simply thanked me for writing it.

Sigh.

Lastly--and wonderful though admittedly less important to me than the aforementioned--I was invited to be a panelist at "BlogHer '12."  I have since learned that this is kind of a big deal. Pretty stoked about it, actually.

Yeah, so I'll be in New York for that in August. Kind of exciting, right? Makes me feel so bona fide.

But not nearly as much as what those two interns said.

Sigh.

Okay. That's all for now. I have to go.

Thank you so much for being a part of this community with me. Really.

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Happy Thursday.