… be sharing this stage! I trusted my strength and my stubbornness enough to carry me through the hardest moments of my entire life, and promised myself that I would … the single thing keeping my head above water long enough, was you.  Don’t look at me like that. Yes, I’m talking about you .  Well, the generations of you before you, … single discipline making up this beautiful, interprofessional crowd in front of me. I owe my ability to stand before you today to the collective efforts of the …

… if I were the clinician, the patient’s spouse, etc., this might be going on for me." You literally try to put yourself in the shoes of all of the various people in … I remember when I was a presenter, I told a story that was deeply personal to me. The only reason I told it was because the Balint group I was in, which I usually facilitated, was so small that it just had the exact right recipe for me to feel safe enough to be able to tell this story. After I told it and had to push …

… what excites you most about working with this patient population? Cardiology found me, and I am so grateful. I have experience doing full-spectrum primary care, and … what excites you most about working with this patient population? Cardiology found me, and I quickly realized how much I loved the complexity, interdisciplinary … and safely mobilize critically ill patients. This environment not only allowed me to hone my understanding of cardiac physiology and increase my exposure to cardiac …

… at myself,” wrote Talusan. “Though Gayun was delivering difficult news, she gave me one of the greatest gifts—the gift of knowing that it wasn’t my fault and that my … my genetics held the ending to my story long before it was written. Gayun helped me to trust medicine, to trust health care, and to trust myself through my child’s … at myself,” wrote Talusan. “Though Gayun was delivering difficult news, she gave me one of the greatest gifts—the gift of knowing that it wasn’t my fault and that my …