The stethoscope felt heavier that day. The coat a little too white. The corridors a little too long. Somewhere, in a room just ahead, a patient waited â not knowing they were about to become someone's ...

Did a real-life or fictional doctor inspire you to become a doctor? My mother—a trailblazing physician in rural India in the 1960s—was my greatest inspiration. She was one of the first female doctors ...