{"id":807,"date":"2014-01-03T02:53:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T02:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/?p=807"},"modified":"2017-11-20T20:24:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T20:24:03","slug":"medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/?p=807","title":{"rendered":"Why I Went Into Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kids; Our lives can be so complacent that we are carried on the currents of microscopic time into the next moment of existence.\\r\\n\\r\\nI was once asked why I wanted to become a doctor of medicine. It took me a few minutes to gain some clarity on the answer, however, this is what came to me intuitively. My father was diagnosed with prostate cancer when I was twelve. Most of what I remember was the fear on everybody&#8217;s faces. In those days, prostate cancer was a sticky note of death.\\r\\n\\r\\nI think, at age twelve, I had experienced enough guilt training that my grandiose child figured that I could become a health care professional and save my father. The accuracy of that is questionable, but the reasoning is interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids; Our lives can be so complacent that we are carried on the currents of microscopic time into the next moment of existence.\\r\\n\\r\\nI was once asked why I wanted to become a doctor of medicine. It took me a few minutes to gain some clarity on the answer, however, this is what came to me &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/?p=807\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why I Went Into Medicine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2819,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/2819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}