Then she spoke about dedication and how most come to medicine because they are driven by a true desire to serve society through their work. Every day someone will be better off because you went to work. The key to providing good care is actually stopping and listening to the patient that you are attempting to treat. She talked about the lessons that will come with time. Failure is a part of medicine.
Treatments fail to work.
Patients are human. Research budgets are cut. Life is messy. She ended with this thought. Student speakers for this year's commencement were Vasudha L. Bhavaraju for the medical school and graduate student Robin A. McCann.