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My name is Dr. Toby De Silva, and I'm a fraud.
Not a cheating sort of fraud I mean. Just the sort that gets somewhere more by luck than talent. I scraped through medical school, failing stuff, resitting stuff. You'd think after the first few I'd get better, find a way to sit through lectures without my head wandering off into another world. Learning how to learn.
I thought passing would be the end of the hard part.
That man in front of me is my patient. He's dead. Five minutes ago I was trying to put a tube down his throat so he could breathe. I couldn't do it. The man over there with dark hair is Adam, my boss. He says it's not my fault.
The woman next to me is Ruth. She's technically the same level as me but knows everything. Top of the class, top of the year. I'd hate her if she didn't get me out of trouble by knowing what to do. She gives me all the drunks and smelly patients.
I'm going to get a coffee now. Adam's looking at me.
Not a cheating sort of fraud I mean. Just the sort that gets somewhere more by luck than talent. I scraped through medical school, failing stuff, resitting stuff. You'd think after the first few I'd get better, find a way to sit through lectures without my head wandering off into another world. Learning how to learn.
I thought passing would be the end of the hard part.
That man in front of me is my patient. He's dead. Five minutes ago I was trying to put a tube down his throat so he could breathe. I couldn't do it. The man over there with dark hair is Adam, my boss. He says it's not my fault.
The woman next to me is Ruth. She's technically the same level as me but knows everything. Top of the class, top of the year. I'd hate her if she didn't get me out of trouble by knowing what to do. She gives me all the drunks and smelly patients.
I'm going to get a coffee now. Adam's looking at me.