Like a host of college writers, in some measure spurred by the threat of conscription, I came to wonder of my bookish path and returned from a summer of discovery to choose the road more traveled—one that lead away from storytelling and verse to the sure shelter and cachet of a profession. In the years when American medical schools admitted only “hard science” majors and selection committees were at best skeptical of liberal arts degrees, I clicked heels and demoted my English studies to a minor.

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