back to school

I ' ve enjoyed seeing everyone ' s back to school photos of social media these past few weeks, though they make me realize that I must be either one click off age-wise or else totally disconnected from current parenting trends, as I have never in my life taken a picture of my kid holding a sign (or if you want to get real fancy, ablackboard) broadcasting what grade they were going into. (Another trend that either came later or else that I just totally ignored was that thing where you put agiant sticker on the front of your kids ' onesie telling everyone how many months old they are.) I mean, not that I don ' t take a picture of my kids on approximately the first day of school, because I do...kind of. But it just seems like there are so manythings andrituals andaccoutrement now. Like the child-rearing industry is slowly becoming the bridal industry.But speaking of back to school...Around the end of last year (right around, oh, say...Wednesday November 9th), I started thinking about how I could get more involved in healthcare on a broader level. I love my job and have no plans to stop being an anesthesiologist, but I also wanted to do something...else. Somethingmore. Something less zoomed in, something a little more macro, something more policy and population-based. A broader way to help out. So what I decided to do was to go back to school and get a Masters of Public Health.This was not an easy decision. Getting this degree is going to take a lot of time. It comes with a ...
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