When Lindsay Niehay was younger, trying to figure out what she wanted to do with her life,

she asked herself some questions.

What do I think I'm good at? What do I think I could do for decades? What do I think is going to be the best way that I can help the world?

Lindsey chose medicine. She made it her mission to become a doctor.

Like I wanted to set a big goal for myself and so, you know, to me at the time I was like, yes, that's a big goal, that's something to get me excited, you know, something to work towards.

So she was thrilled when Texas Tech University accepted her to their very competitive medical school.

And then after she graduated, they selected her for their residency program in emergency medicine.

She was ranked fourth among everyone who applied.

Residences are like a training program for doctors to put their knowledge into

practice before they start working with patients unsupervised.

These programs are high stress and high stakes.

If you don't complete the program, you might not get another chance to become a practicing doctor.

Lindsay leaned into that pressure and at the beginning everything seemed to be going great.

But then not even a year into her program, things started going downhill.

Her bosses kept scolding her for these little mistakes, mistakes that seemed pretty normal

for a doctor in training.

It was like they were like picking these really small issues

that were very common amongst my peers

and then making them a big deal for me.

And I didn't really know why.

She wondered, what's going on?

I thought that it could mean the end of my career, essentially, before it even hardly got started.

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