1. You learn to distrust the quiet.
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2. You never really feel comfortable having so much responsibility.
3. You learn that empathic listening almost always comes first.
4. At a certain point, you give up caring about your appearance
5. You begin to engage in revenge bedtime procrastination
6. You become eerily superstitious
7. Your missteps never leave you, but your successes make it all worthwhile
Adam Stern, MD is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the author of the upcoming memoir Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training, due out on July 13, 2021.
