When my Nonnie was in the hospital last year, we met and talked with a lot of different medical professionals. I don't remember most of them, and certainly not their names or details about their lives. I do remember one though and I will remember him for a long time.
He was the Pulmonary Fellow at my Nonnie's hospital and he was a really great Dr., a really great Dr. who loved Jesus.
One day, he came in and just sat and talked with us while we waited by Nonnie's side. The guy looked very young, so we got to asking him about his medical career etc., assuming he was some kind of kid genius. Boy were we wrong!
This Dr. had been a B student his entire life and he worked hard for those Bs. He took a while to finish his undergrad and was not the typical overachieving pre-med student. In fact, he was a little aimless in college until he met his would be wife and got more serious about his walk with Christ. After he graduated, he took the MCAT and did not do very well- he may have even said that he bombed it.
There was no way he would get into med school with his score. Obviously, this was very depressing to him and he wondered if he would ever be a Dr., he was ready to give up. His wife encouraged him that he was supposed to be Dr. and that he could certainly do it. So, with her prompting, he worked his butt off and studied for another year or so before he took the MCAT again. He did score better the second time around, but he still didn't get an amazing score (some people just aren't good testers!).
He applied to many, many schools and got 2 interviews. His first interview did not go well and he knew when he left that there was no chance he's be getting into that school. The interviewer even told him to try again in a few years! He was hopeless headed into his second interview, but his wife still had faith-so much so that she went with him for moral support. The interviewer looked at him, with his mediocre file in his hand and asked, "Why should I give you one of the few spots in this program?" Dr. K hung his head for a moment, looked up and replied, "Because there's a woman on the other side of that door who believes in me." That's all he had to offer the interviewer, because he had no faith of his own left. And do you know what? That answer got him in! And he did great. And he ended up being an amzing Dr.
I think about that Dr. and his wife a lot. I want to be a wife like that.
2 comments:
Such a silver lining from last year and beautifully told. By the way, you are that kind of wife and I could not be more proud.
I love this story.
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