there were two things keeping me there. First, I’d worked long and hard to get as far as I had. Second—and I realize this might sound a bit earnest—it’s a privilege to be allowed to play such an important role in people’s lives. You may be an hour late home, but you’re an hour late home because you stopped a mother bleeding to death. You may have had forty women in a prenatal clinic designed for twenty, but that’s forty women relying on you for the health of their babies. Even in the parts of the job you hate—for me it was urogynecology clinic, a bunch of grannies with pelvic floors like
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