I’ve been asked this question time and again, “What made you decide to do medicine?”

— “It was an accident.”

I had decided to do law initially but due to a fortunate or unfortunate (as some might say) parallax error, I coded ‘Law’, instead of ‘Medicine’. Despite the avalanche of medicine-related questions during the interview, I perservered, thinking it merely a perverse act on the part of some disgruntled lawyer who was hauled out of his/her billion dollar lawsuit to interview a lawyer-wannabe, and therefore decided to give me an especially difficult time.

A month later, to my absolute horror, a letter arrived, bound in blues and orange:

‘Dear Sir/Madam, we are pleased to inform you that you have been selected for admission to XYZ for a course of study in Medicine in the session ….’