RT Journal
A1 Blumberg JM
T1 COnsidering life before lifestyle
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD May 23
VO 307
IS 20
SP 2159
OP 2160
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.4522
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.4522
AB 
My dad has happily practiced general pediatrics for the past 35 years, but according to my grandmother this was not his intended career path—he was supposed to become a surgeon. Nana, as we called her, told me that my father failed the “steady-hands test” when he began medical school in 1970, and so he could not pursue a surgical specialty. She explained it vividly, and it really must have been terrifying: you had to place your hands in front of your body, fingers stretched taut, in front of a panel of robed, white-haired, pipe-smoking, surgical professors—one quiver, you're finished.