Urgency

Met with my former psychiatry department adviser to get a letter of recommendation, and broke the news to her that I declared ob-gyn instead. I think it's the right choice, but I still felt kind of bad about it. Especially when she mused, "So many promising psych students end up going into urology, surgery..."

Somewhere in medical school, the allure of investigating the unknown gets swept up by the urgency of impending death. It's hard to juggle both at once, because one requires lots of time spent sitting and thinking, and the other requires action. In the end, we all end up picking one of the two. I guess at heart, I'm a bit of an adrenaline junky. Who would've thought.