"The stuff I wanted to do in medical school was a career path that I was told repeatedly cannot exist by all of my mentors in EM. I just wanted a specialty where I took care of sick patients when they're at their sickest. I always thought that was what EM was supposed to be, but it was made abundantly clear to me by my advisors that that's not what EM is at all. That EM is really providing primary care to people at any hour, when they're in need, and that the resuscitation portion was actually a small part of that career path. That never made sense to me. When you listen to the words of Peter Rosen, who was a mentor I only got to meet recently, so he was a mentor in absentia, but when you hear him talk about why he helped to found the field of EM, it was because he wanted to take care of sick patients, and he thought we were the best field to do it. Somehow, I think EM has lost its way. It's become a field where we care more about customer satisfaction and patient turnaround than taking care of sick patients."
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