The Cauldron of Life Experiences that Creates the Geriatrician: a Personal Perspective

None of us are born to be physicians, although some parents claim that ever since their child was a toddler they seemed drawn to medicine. Maybe they played “doctor” or saw a parent who was a doctor at work, or maybe they watched television shows in which a doctor was the “hero.” For most of us though, it is a combination of happenstance, external influences, and internal drive, that results in the choice of medicine as a career and in our choice of specialty