Claire’s Big Break_(2)
Claire excitedly jumped out of bed in the early warm Boston morning in May. This was the day she had been waiting for seemingly forever. She was interviewing for Dr. Lawson’s renowned summer scholarship for newly minted post-secondary women interested in pursuing a career in medicine. … For as long as Claire could remember, she wanted to be a doctor. Her mother and father were both physicians, and served as role models for her. Even as a child she would dress up in their oversized white coats, wear their stethoscope in her ears and pretend to auscultate her teddy bears, much to her parents’ amusement. She grew up watching TV shows like House and Gray’s Anatomy, fantasizing about what her career would one day be like. Her parents were extremely flattered by their daughter idolizing …