We live out our lives on the surgical unit. Seven days a week, fourteen hours a day. We are together more than we are apart. After a while the ways of residency become the ways of life.
Number one: always keep score.
Number two: Do whatever you can to outsmart the other guy.
Number three: Don't make friends with the enemy.
Oh, and yeah, number four: everything, everything is a competition.
Whoever said winning wasn't everything never held a scalpel.
There's another way to survive this competition. A way no one ever seems to tell you about. One you have to learn for yourself.
Number five: It's not about the race. At all. There are no winners or losers. Victories are counted by the number of lives saved.
And once in a while, if you're smart, the life you save could be your own.
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