News Summary

• Julian Zelizer: I grew up in a middle-class family in a safe neighborhood with good schools and steady routines.
• He says he came to medicine with a narrow sense of what was “normal” He says medicine cracked that world open, and he learned that both were real, and both needed space.
• Zelizer says his job is not to judge who is worthy of care or to measure whether their choices line up with mine, but to care for the person in front of him.