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My name is Vivique and I am a physician by training but most importantly I'm a dad of two

toddlers. When I was going through my residency training after medical school. We were told when we started the

program that we should in fact call our family and close friends and tell them that

they probably wouldn't be hearing from us for a long time. We were told that dealing with life and death situations

excruciating illness and incredibly delicate and difficult family

circumstances would be incredibly be incredibly taxing.

And so with this warning in mind, I entered my residency training,

expecting it to be an extraordinarily difficult three years.

I was training with 70 some odd fellow recent graduates

who came to work each day almost without exception

with a mindset of how we could all help each other out.

I came to work each day feeling like I was coming to work with friends.

Fast forward just three years. When I started a full-time job, that community broke apart and dispersed.

And instead, I was in the more sterile culture

of traditional medicine with a group of people

I didn't really know that well.

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