A medical student’s accidental internship in empathy
My “aha” moment wouldn’t come at the signing of my leave of absence contract. Nor would it awaken me at night with the chair-gripping dizziness I had come to expect.
When the vertigo started in early December during my third block of clerkship, I chalked the symptoms up to stress.
Over the December break, I met with my family doctor and casually recounted my symptoms. The vertigo had worsened, and seemed questionably …
