In training, you celebrate your first central line, your first delivery, your first code save. In practice, the 500th central line is just a task. The thrives on the absence of novelty. The brain, starved of the dopamine hit that comes from learning, atrophies into routine.
Doctor Slump is not a groundbreaking medical thriller or a swooning chaebol romance. It’s a for the overworked, the anxious, and anyone who has ever felt like a failure. Doctor Slump
You are not broken. You are not ungrateful. You worked 80-hour weeks, missed birthdays, held patient hands while they died, and got puked on. You earned the right to be tired. In training, you celebrate your first central line,