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[transfundere]

"Please leave a message. Should you require immediate medical assistance, please seek closer help and I will attend you as soon as possible."

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[transfundere]

I had little doubt.

I also had a breach where I was a doctor in a more modern era and that made sure I knew.

What brought you to medical school? Given you currently do not practice?

[cactusy]

I wanted to be a doctor since I was ten. Emergency medicine, specifically.

[transfundere]

A desire we share, then.

I assume something happened to change the course of things?

[cactusy]

[Shaw's hands still on the jar of spice that she's holding, just a half-second of hesitation as she considers how to answer.]

Wasn't right for me.

[She says, as she shakes nutmeg into the casserole dish. Then she amends:]

I wasn't right for it.

[transfundere]

[ There are any number of reasons why that might be the case and given the difficulties of his profession, he knows that most of them are intensely personal and for someone who felt the calling only to find themselves unsuitable, often painful. He won't pry for more. ]

You seem to have found another calling. Unsurprising, in someone clearly intelligent, passionate, and possessing the sort of drive that you do.