While I was interviewing a standardized patient–a large black Baptist woman who used prayer as the main form of treatment of diabetes–she explained that she was a “football widow,” meaning that she lost her husband to the football games every Sunday and Monday nights. I asked her what sports teams, if any, she supported. “Oh honey, the only team for me is TEAM JESUS!!!” It took all my self-control to not respond with something like, “That’s John and me!”
Needless to say, she thought it was a pretty awesome sign that the first two medical students she saw were Jesus and Christian, respectively. Go team.
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