VIII Home Stretch
Over the next three and a half years, although I studied and practiced and followed the Residents on rounds in the hospitals like everyone else, something was changing in how I viewed Medicine. My senior year, I spent three months in a clinic in South America.
“Why down there?” John asked. “You wanna be Dr. Schweitzer instead of Dr. Kildare?”
“Diagnosticians need to know Tropical Diseases, too,” was the best explanation I could mount.
I applied for Internship in California.
“Why California?” John asked again. “We have plenty of good hospitals here.”
That was a little harder to answer. The best I could come up with was:
“The Times, They are a’Changin’.”
Sex, Drugs, and Public Health 