Doctor Psychobabble

“the decisive moment, it is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression.”

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

I had a conversation with my attending recently about how people make their own futures. We talked about how there is this moment in time when you make a decision – and at that moment a million possibilities suddenly open up like a supernova. And if you can live in that moment, and fully envision your future, it happens because it must. Because it is. It’s a quantum probability manifested.

We were also talking about how people sometimes defy “chance” and resist the consensus opinion to surmount all. I thought back to the pre-med advisor who told me, many years ago that a high school drop out like me had no chance of succeeding in med school. I thought back to the time I made the decision to attend a Caribbean medical school and many people told me that I’d never obtain a residency or succeed in my career. It turns out that many people were wrong.

Anyway, some heavy thoughts for a Tuesday, I know. Time to have a decisive moment about my dinner!

Photo: Taken on my walk to the hospital.