Stages of Life

It always impresses me when I talk to a resident who has children and a family. I think it's incredibly difficult to achieve any balance in trying to manage a home life when one is working 80 hours a week. I can barely juggle work, studying, errands, and fun, and I don't know how those residents in our program who have multiple young kids do it. It also reminds me that we're all at different stages of life; back in college and even med school, everyone more or less progresses together. But by residency, the group has become so diverse that we're all in a different part of growing up. Although the camaraderie feels different, it's also enlightening to see how everyone settles into his or her stage of life.