Author: Jacob Lentz
After we met in a hospital in Cape Town and
he laudably showed me both how to start IV lines (something nurses do in the
States, so much appreciated) and how not to contract TB (also appreciated),
Robbie asked me to write an entry for Pondering EM on the topic of why a comedy
writer would choose emergency medicine as a specialty.
Briefly, before I went to medical school I
wrote for Jimmy Kimmel Live for eight and a half years. Having been involved in
well over a thousand episodes of television and with a quite comfortable
professional life where I worked with hilarious, interesting people while
getting eight weeks of paid vacation a year, I then had a brief psychotic
episode in which I applied to medical school.
