There’s a difference between looking and seeing. I’ve looked bones in books a million times. I’ve looked at skulls in horror movies out of the corner of my eyes. But this year, I saw her. Yellowed and petite, she stood in the corner of the lab. A stand cradled her spine, wire bound her together, her head ornamentally dangled from a string. Tasked with learning the parts of the body, I touched her hands. Then I realized: These are her hands.
I'm not sure why this is one of the reasons I know I want to be a doctor. It just is.