6/11/2023 0 Comments Journeys in my antonia![]() Everything started to make sense for a change. I struggled a while longer, but eventually I put away my scalpel, took up my neglected stethoscope once again, and I took up a formal internal medicine training post in New Zealand, starting on another journey. ![]() Then on my first day as a house officer in general surgery, I stood for 9 hours in a laparoscopic hemicolectomy, without any breaks for eating or going to the bathroom, and suddenly my life choices became much less clear. I loved anatomy, loved my surgical rotations, and thought that this was my destiny. Throughout medical school, I was convinced I was destined to be a surgeon. Unlike many of my colleagues in the medical field, I took a very unconventional path through my postgraduate training.
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