There is no shame in honest work, no matter what the job description is

When my sister, Jessica, was a nurse anesthetist student at the University of New England, she had the opportunity to rotate at Johns Hopkins, and she seized it. She was young and fairly new to the medical world and so she did not recognize at first the name of the neurosurgeon with whom she would be working — Dr. Ben Carson. After receiving multiple comments from numerous people about how great it was that she would be working with him, she did what any other 20-something year old would do … she Googled him. Naturally, she found out that he was very accomplished in his field; he was the first neurosurgeon, in fact, to ever successfully separate conjoined twins that were joined at the back of the head. It did not take long, though, before it was more than his resume that made an impression on her. It was an ordinary day, a few hours into a case, and there was not much left to do. Dr. Carson had scrubbed out and had stepped to the side of the room while the neurosurgery fellow finished closing. Apparently the inexperienced medical student that was assisting the fellow contaminated his sterile glove, and the fellow lost his temper in a fit of frustration. It was loud enough for my sister to take notice, so she stood up and peered over the blue drape that was obscuring her view of the scene. The fellow looked at Dr. Carson and said something to the effect of: “How do you do this every day?  Working with medical students and residents that are inevitably ...
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