A good friend of mine from high school and The Things I Learned From reader, Kevin Olsen, shared this stirring and authentic story with me a few days ago and now I am honored to share it with you, my friends. [If you have a story you would like to submit, I’d love to read it, post it, learn from it. Send it to: JenGlantz@gmail.com]

“How important it was to know as much medicine as I could, so that maybe one day I could save someone, even if they seem hopelessly gone.”–Kevin Olsen

I was just there to shadow…

It was 3pm on a Wednesday. I boarded the shuttle to Grady, anticipating what I might see in the emergency department that night while shadowing Dr. Martin. Although I had been in an emergency department before, I had never seen a true emergency. Most cases were colds, unobservable pains, or broken limbs; nothing that got my heart pumping or my adrenaline going. “Tonight is the night” I thought, as images of drug overdoses and bleeding, penetrating wounds danced around my mind, both exhilarating and frightening at the same time. Not that I could really contribute to the patients care, as I was … Read More »