This brings me to another point-how remarkably fortunate I have been to experience my life's work as a calling. Not only did this sense of a calling to clinical medicine clarify and direct my early years through medical school and residency, but it certainly saved me all the anguish that many young people seem to face in finding their way in adult society.But I have been doubly fortunate in this regard in that I would subsequently feel a second calling, one to scientific research. I would never have imagined this during medical school and house staff days. I was totally devoted to clinical work and avoided all research electives in medical school to focus on clinical activities.
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