So here I am, starting a new rotation and waiting on match results to find out where I'll be doing my residency, if any. It's frightening and exciting all the same. Nearing the end of the educational experience of medical school and holding the expectations of being able to move forward with great hope.
The rotation is radiology. Sitting in the dark, with another human being, for hours on end... reading the shadows. The unit secretary said it was "going to the dark side"...literally. But in those shadows is a crucial skill that many take for granted. X-ray, CT, MRI and U/S are extensions of the physical exam to peer inside. I'm excited about it.
Yet, sitting in the dark with another human seems so wrong too.
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. 
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