weekends? I’ve spent so long without Sam that the thought of going back to a life without him sounds miserable. Still, I made a commitment and I worked hard to be a chief in my last year of residency. It’s then that I think about the memory ceremony, about how I chose to remember Sarah. It would have been so easy to let her fade from my consciousness, but I would have cheated myself out of the forgiveness and the healing. It’s this realization that actually reenergizes my love of medicine, and for the first time since, I feel ready to face the hospital again.

