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Most of what I’ve got in my room is books. Like, a million of them. I’m not a hoarder, but it would be accurate to say I’ve saved pretty much every medical book I’ve ever bought. Even the ones in fields I didn’t go into like OB/GYN or Surgery. Because they’re books. How can you get rid of a book? That’s like throwing away knowledge.
(Excerpt from Jane McGill’s med school admissions essay: Illness is a treacherous dragon, breathing fire on innocent patients, and as a physician, I want to be the shining knight who battles that dragon and saves my patients’ lives.) (No, really. I wrote that. In my defense, I was only 21 at the time.)
Before our modern-day computers, people used calculators, and before that they used slide rules, and before that they used the abacus, and before that, they probably used this computer right here.
