>> So, I think it's really important to be well-rounded; to be able to communicate
with your patients about a lot of things that aren't medical.
A lot of my time in the room is spent talking about things that have nothing to do
with the physiology or medications, or ventilator in that patient's room.
It's talking to families about what's important to them, what it looks like for their kid
to get better and for their kid to go home, or in bad cases, what it looks like for their child
to die in a way that is the best of a bad situation for that family.
And so, I think it's important to have that background in a lot of different subject areas.
I think Liberal Arts is helpful for that, and then I think it's important to have interests
that are somewhat related to medicine
that aren't just being the doctor in the room picking medicines.
So, for me, that interest is bioethics.
And so, picking whatever that interest is, ethics, or policy, or administration,
or education, or something else that's important to you.
I think that helps you to be a better doctor, and I think it also helps you
to be a lot more marketable when you're looking for jobs, to have those other interests.
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