They Cut Me Off In Med School—Until They Saw My Name On The ER Badge

scholarship fund I hadn’t known existed.

Then there was Dr. Singh.

He was one of those attendings everyone both feared and admired. His questions were sharp, his standards sharper, but his eyes, behind wire-rim glasses, were kinder than he liked people to notice. One day, after a particularly brutal call night, he pulled me aside in the hallway.

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