June 6th, 2019
I can’t believe today was my last day at Dr. Graham’s clinic. I had become close to many people in Dr. Graham’s clinic including the man himself. I’m going to miss the look on Vanessa’s face and the puff of air followed by a slight nod whenever I asked her if Dr. Graham was behind on his schedule. I’m going to miss the long conversations I had about the NBA finals and Drake with Konan, Dr. Graham’s newest scribe. I’m going to miss learning about fencing and the Mormons living in Utah from Dakota. I’m going to miss all the cool procedures Ms. Susan performed and let me watch. I’m going to miss seeing the long lines of staff members waiting patiently for Dr. Graham to finish his patient visit and step out of the room. I’m going to miss the conversations I had with various staff members while I used to eat my lunch in the break room. I’m going to miss the constant air conditioning I felt as I waited for him in his room. In short, I’m going to miss so many things that made this clinic so unique which was the people. It was a delight to meet so many new faces and hearing about their stories and learning about how Dr. Graham had impacted their life as they are on the way to recovery. I’m going to miss Dr. Graham interrupting my lunch break so that I never missed out on seeing any of his patients. I’m going to miss the smiles he brought to the faces of countless faces and the pure joy they felt when he said, “I went to sleep well last night after reading your report. I’m going to miss Dr. Graham’s most famous catch-phrase: “I kid you not”. But what I’m truly going to miss the most is the knowledge I was able to gain while shadowing him for the past two weeks. I hope that one day I will be able to make good use of all Dr. Graham’s teachings with hopefully get to learn so much more from him.
