I am an Addictive PERSONALITY, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many DOCTORS have WARNED me against it. I am a High-risk PATIENT.
I've always been INTERESTED in MEDICINE and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that FIELD, I realized that what INTRIGUED me was not the science, not the CHEMISTRY or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness.