MY PARENTS WALKED AWAY FROM ME AT THE HOSPITAL WHEN I WAS 13 — MY MOTHER WENT PALE WHEN THE DEAN CALLED MY NAME

it to be a surprise.

May 20th arrived bright and cloudless. Johns Hopkins held its commencement ceremony at Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore, with room for more than 10,000 attendees. Graduates from medicine, nursing, public health, and every Hopkins program would be there alongside their families.

I arrived early for lineup. My white coat was perfectly continue reading …