In praise of work “So Lin, what will you do when you retire?” My friend Steve, then an intensivist at the Texas Medical Center where we both worked knew my answer. He just wanted to see what happened when I said that I didn’t ever want to retire in front of the group of burned out physicians and administrators we sat with. His eyes twinkled while he waited for me to begin speaking in praise of work. Back in those hundred plus hour weeks I balanced a more than full-time job with finishing my doctoral dissertation. I knew that Steve […]