The Day I Learned to Give Myself Grace
If it’s worth doing, isn’t it worth doing well?
3 min readSep 15, 2020
“Once, I performed a rectal examination on a patient, but I kept thinking something felt wrong.”
She paused, and her college-age audience waited eagerly for her conclusion — after all, a rectal examination-gone-wrong story told by an ER doctor was more interesting than the weather or politics.
