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

badge, my role, in every order I’d given in the last ten minutes. But there was something about the way he said it—bewildered, almost childlike—that sliced through me.

“Yes,” I said evenly. “I am.”

My mother pressed her fingertips to her lips, eyes filling. “You… you never dropped out,” she whispered. It wasn’t quite a question.

“No,” I replied. “I didn’t.continue reading …