How do you relate to people outside of medicine?

Does anyone else ever feel like there is an unbridgeable gap in communication and life experience when they see family or old friends from high school/college who are not involved in science and/or medicine? For example, when I recently hung out with an old friend from high school, I felt somewhat disconnected since our school and work experiences are so vastly different now, and we just couldn’t relate on that level. Another: If a family member asks me what I’m learning in medical school,... How do you relate to people outside of medicine?
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