RT Journal
A1 Seidel HM
T1 DRama in medicine?
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2009
FD January 7
VO 301
IS 1
SP 18
OP 19
DO 10.1001/jama.2008.942
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2008.942
AB 
The US public's misunderstanding of the breadth of that drama poses a problem if we are to confront constructively the serious inadequacies in health care in the United States today. For me, that misunderstanding began when I was 9 years old. My cousin, a medical student at Yale at that time, brought me and my father to the Sterling Hall of Medicine. Entering that space was for me a threshold experience for that moment and for the rest of my life. The entrance hall looked awesome in the eyes of a 9-year-old. I impetuously said then, and I have never demurred, “I am going to be a doctor.” I had no grasp at all about what being a doctor really meant.