Trust

In a professional environment now teeming with litigious parasites and Starbucks-wielding pharmaceutical reps, it is hard to imagine that a modern physician can trust anyone. Yet, as I barely wrap up my first block of my first year of med school I already deeply trust my classmates and teachers. Having been burned more than a few times in the past I am not a particularly trusting person, but somehow in the short time we've been together we have a camaraderie that I can see lasting throughout the rest of my career. How does this happen so quickly, I wonder? Is it the fact that as a group we all face so much adversity and hostility in the general public, or is it something intrinsic to the profession of medicine? I don't know the answer to that question yet, but I think it's important that we stand together on what common ground we can find to take on the enormous challenges of health care in this contentious time.