Olympic pointers to enchantment
I still have this hoodie from 20 years ago ! Go Team Canada !! February 2006. I was working as a psychiatrist in New-Brunswick, Canada. I was fianlly an attending physician working independently. It felt scary and wonderful, like a good roller-coaster at an amusement park. In parallel to my ''grownup doc'' duties, including inpatient care, 24-h call, crisis interventions in the emergency room (for adults and teens( etc, I was also studying for my board exams for the Royal College. A thick binder to read, with quizzes, sample questions... A very ebullient phase for my young and knowledge-thirsty brain. I remember the bliss I felt from devouring the winter Olympics. Ski, figure skating, luge. Watching athletes perform so divinely and longing for a life of such dedication to an activity helping me to reach the limits of the human body provided not only a blissful vicarious experience but a reward system for the discipline of my study material review. Even though I was livi...
