This physician brought his right brain back from the brink of death
I checked my right brain at the door when I started medical school in 1995. Writing, performing music, and acting didn’t make it in. How could they? I had very little free time and why would I want to cling to touchy-feely distractions? I was prepared to sacrifice personal interests and passions to clear my mental decks. I wanted to dedicate all my brain power to the promise of learning critical information that would empower me to care for the ill. It was a left brain dominant exercise for sure. And walking the hill at my graduation, I remember thinking I had given up my love for art and beauty in the world to fill my mind with far too much clinically irrelevant minutiae.
I had screwed up very, very badly. No doubt, many of my peers made the same mistake I did when we started med school. Until recent life events smacked me upside the head (much, much more on that later), I had given up on my right brain enthusiasms. On an EEG, it would have been a virtual flat-line. The creative, inventive, passionate side of me was in squalor and disrepair. What I thought had been an informed decision to become a brilliant doctor (and I only use that adjective as a hypothetical description, not necessarily my reality!) left me as a doctor who only used half his brain. That, dear reader, was one of the stupidest things I’ve ever done.
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