After all my #Match2023 IVs and being asked this question repeatedly, I can confidently say the ONE quality I want to continue to strive for is humility.
And I will only rank programs who understood what I meant by this.
And I will only rank programs who understood what I meant by this.
I studied for my Step 1, amidst rotating in the ER as Karachi faced the worst wave of COVID in 2021, while my mother underwent surgery back home in the US.
Every day I sat after 12 hour rotations to study not knowing whether my mom would see her son graduate or what would become of the pandemic.
But it was in those times of extreme unease and darkness that I find the purifying light in the form of kindness.
I met so many patients during this time who had lost so much to the pandemic who actually asked me if we, healthcare workers, were okay. And that touched me to my core.
Yes, medical knowledge is important. Yes, professionalism is critical. And hard work is what you you to this point.
But to stay humble in the ever changing fortunes of time is the real challenge of life. Through humility you can learn to empathize. Through empathy you can strive to ease someone’s pain.
It’s easy to hyper focus in times of distress that your pain is all there is and all it can ever be, but there 8 billion people in this world, each one shaped by the crosses they had to bear.
This is an honorable profession, and we should be so grateful to be in a position to serve humanity.
Be humble. Be kind.
Be humble. Be kind.
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