“Who do you want to be when you grow up?” Every young adult has been asked this question. This is a question that weighs more and more on you the older you get, and will never go away until you are that person. Sometimes, that person changes. It happened to Dr. Rachel Pearson. In her book No Apparent Distress: A Doctor’s Coming-of-Age, Dr. Pearson talks about how, before attending medical school, she wanted to become a writer and went on to study creative writing at Columbia University. After some thought, she then transferred to the University of Texas in Galveston to become the person she wanted to be, a doctor. As a medical student, Pearson spent most of her time at the St.Vincent House, the site of a student-run free health clinic for
