“I thought back to those days, the more mystified and ashamed I felt about my complicity in a system that had so little regard for me. “That’s where you’re wrong,” said Edward. “They loved you. And me too. We were stars. We made them look good and they heaped praise on us. But at some level we knew how easily we might be discarded if we made a wrong step. That’s why we worked so hard to be perfect.”
― Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
― Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
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