TY  - JOUR
T1  - DRama in medicine?
AU  - Seidel HM
Y1  - 2009/01/07
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2008.942
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 18
EP  - 19
VL  - 301
IS  - 1
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2008.942
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2008.942
ER  -