Father and Daughter: A Father’s Privilege

CHILD, why would you want to practice medicine?Late hours, night calls, research projects, administration deadlinesDon’t do medicine, look at my lifeDo what makes you happyDaughter, why are you stressing?Don’t do this. There are easier ways to make a livingIt’s not worth it, go ahead and liveDo what makes you happyDoctor, don’t you know that there is a price for learning?Nothing worth doing is done easilyThe struggle cries there must be an easier wayDo what makes you happyDear Heart, you have chosen a difficult road and kept trueIn anesthesiology we meet as equalsAn old man with eyes that leak now and againGlad and proud that you do what makes you happy