Before med school, I tried to get a job as a minister. I felt that, although I was an atheist, I would be pretty good at consoling people and such; I also have a fondness for total depravity.
Anyways, the church elders were always very polite, but pretty much unanimous in deciding that I lacked certain prerequisites for the job. I'm not the type to make a federal case out of these things, and I suppose I could have tried to go all Unitarian Universalist or something, but in the end I let it drop. Some jobs, your beliefs just render you unqualified for.
Not medicine, though.
Pierce Turner, "Hail Glorious St Patrick"
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Pierce Turner is an old friend from my days in the late '70s when I was a
regular at a Greenwich Village club, the Bells of Hell, where Pierce and
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