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

barely more than air.

I turned to face him.

“Yes?”

His eyes searched my face as if looking for proof that I was real. Up close, I could see the faint tremor in his hands, the way his mouth kept opening and closing without words forming.

“Are you—” He swallowed. “You’re a doctor here.”

It shouldn’t have hurt, that question. The answer was in my coat, my continue reading …