Bert.. I just heard ( and still hear) so much despair. I just wanted to reach out to you all, my friends, and say "it doesn't have to be that way. We are so lucky to be allowed to do what we do. If you feel trapped, there are alternatives...". It was so disheartening to feel I was shouting to the void, and for some just being annoying.
Lynn.... you are spot on. Rich people need doctors, too, and caring for them gave us the freedom to do this without worry. We just inverted what you did, and came to feel we needed to pay back some of what we had been given.. I feel my answer to the question of why we are here is "we are people who always wanted to join the Peace Corps but went to medical school instead". There is no part of my former life that I don't still love. We just feel we are getting two lives for the price of one.
