If you haven’t grown up wondering how you will pay for dinner, you might not get it. If you don’t have anxiety logging into your bank account after a lifetime of not having enough money, it might not make sense. But being perfect was the way that I would ‘get out’ or ‘make it.’
Each time I get rejected -which is part of academic medicine- part of me feels like I’m 10 again and worried about how I will survive one day. I think I’m a better doctor because of it, but the anxiety still feels the same.”
Source: Nicole Grogan Fleege/X