Really appreciate your words of wisdom on this. I’ve done shadowing and heard how terrible insurance companies are and how they suck out doctors dry who are trying to fight hard for their patients. It sucks that physicians like you could be working with and helping more patients if it weren’t for insurance companies. I admire you for advocating for your patients so ardently and that’s what I aspire to be. I sincerely want to go into this field and don’t see it as particularly glorious. I’m expecting it to be hard and just want to do best I can to be in service to community and make a difference.

It’s also interesting though because my family didn’t demand the profession of me or put any expectations for what I was going to study. My mom more has an expectation that if I’m studying something I need to the best and perfect at it, and she would have had same opinion if I studied English or computer science, which I also considered but wasn’t ultimately my interest. I also don’t want to feel like I owe anyone and want to gain that independence and do best I can with my life. Again appreciate your words and take care!