Trauma motivated me to become a doctor
“Raise your hand if you said you wanted to become a doctor to help people during your medical school interview. I see practically every hand in the room raised. Keep them raised if you told your interviewer you also wanted to become a doctor to overcome personal trauma.”
Everyone lowered their hands.
“I’m dismayed there are no honest people here,” I joked to attendees at an annual meeting of the American Psychiatric …