"Practicing medicine doesn't lend itself to the making of friends. Maybe because life and mortality are in our faces all the time. Maybe because in staring down death everyday, we're forced to know that life, every minute is borrowed time. And each person, we let ourselves care about is just one more loss somewhere down the line. For this reason, I know some doctors who just don't bother making friends at all. But the rest of us, we make it our job to move that line. To push each loss as far away as we can." - Meredith, in Grey's Anatomy
I didn't want to be a doctor because I didn't think I'd be able to take all the blood and gore (all doctors have to go through some surgery). But then I heard this from Grey's Anatomy, and I realized that blood and gore is nothing compared to staring at mortality in the face all the time.
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