She Told Them I Dropped Out of Medical School — Five Years Later, I Walked Into the ER as Her Attending Physician

it did.

I graduated on time. No one from Hartford came.

I matched into a surgical residency at Mercyrest Medical Center in Connecticut — a level one trauma center, one of the busiest in the state. That’s where I met Dr. Margaret Thornton. Maggie. Fifty-eight years old, chief of surgery emeritus, built like a steel cable wrapped in a lab coat. She became continue reading …