A Day in the Life of… A Physician Scientist: The Same Experiment for the Fiftieth Time

When people hear what I do, they think oh how cool, how exciting. Nothing could be further from the truth. It’s long hours, mind-numbingly repetitious tasks and abject failure day after day.

But on those days when breakthroughs happen, when a new therapy I’ve helped create, works, when a baby I’ve treated that should not have made it out of the hospital alive goes home with their parents… well, that’s when the excitement happens and makes all the rest worthwhile