Today was Jesse's long awaited "White Coat Ceremony" where all of the medical students recieve their first white coats, this year the students were also gifted a really nice stethoscope. (We learned that there is a whole set of jokes in physician humor pertaining to how to distinguish different specialties purely based on how they use a stethoscope, still a little too inside for us) The students also take the Hippocratic Oath for the first time. My favorite part, aside from seeing my man cloaked in the coat of a doctor, was the keynote speaker. Dr. Richard J Sperry spoke about how far medicine has come and how much it has lost. He begged the students to keep their humanity, to listen to and look patients in the eye, to be compassionate and in doing so to "buck the system." Well said, Dr. Sperry.
