Reflecting on Pediatrics Residency — living at the frontlines

<p>I was recently speaking to a close friend and she remarked &ldquo;I feel like residency made you stop writing.&rdquo; I was initially caught off guard, but as I reflected further, I remembered a quote I recently read from one of my colleague&rsquo;s pieces &mdash; &ldquo;a writer either doesn&rsquo;t write because she has nothing to write about, or too much to write about. For me, it has been the latter.&rdquo;**</p> <p>For those who don&rsquo;t know, residency is an essentially required period of medical training in a chosen specialty that doctors go through after graduating from medical school. Residents often work around 80 hours a week, sometimes for over 24 hours at a time. And in some ways, residency did make me stop writing.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@preranachatty/reflecting-on-pediatrics-residency-1b2402f7f344"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>