Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi EPUB & PDF

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• Authors: Aminah Mae Safi
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Establishing Shots

Sana

“And, finally, why you?”
Sana watched the interviewer. The woman had on a dark, boxy suit and
had her hair fixed in a sleek, long bob. She was dressed to blend, to be
forgettable. But Sana saw the interviewer’s sharp eyes.
Sana smiled—a calculated half smile. “Why me? As opposed to someone
else? Look, I know you’ve got thousands of applicants for this position. Who
doesn’t want to add working at a research genetics hospital in rapidly
industrializing India to their future med school application?”
The interviewer nodded. Patient, but unimpressed.

“I’ve wanted to be a surgeon my whole life. I’ve practiced stitching with
cross-stitch and embroidery since I was ten. I’ve been playing video games
for longer than that. My hand-eye coordination is off the charts, frankly. I’ve
taken every premed class you can take while you’re still in high school. I
elected to take organic chemistry in my senior year. I’ve shadowed doctors.
I’ve done internships. I’m, like, a poster child for doing the most. My whole
life has built up to being a doctor. My whole life.”
Sana paused so the woman could give another noncommittal nod. The
walls of this room were a faded slate gray. An intentionally neutral room. A
space for evaluating fairly. Aside from the interviews Sana did for summer
jobs, every interview room she had ever been in had been similarly painted.
Similarly outfitted with beautiful, institutional mahogany furniture.

“But that doesn’t make me different. I’m sure all your other applicants
feel the same. Have done the same.”

The woman nodded again, her sharp eyes a little narrowed, waiting.
Sana had practiced this part alone in her room. Having to admit to herself
what she was about to say had been terrifying enough the first time. But in
front of another person was something else altogether.

She took a deep breath, ready as she would ever be. “The thing is, I don’t
know. I don’t know what it is to wake up every day and go into a hospital. To
actually help people in this way. We didn’t have the money growing up for
me to take any of those medical mission trips. And even those, they aren’t
everyday conditions, are they? They’re an exceptional week in the life.

I want
to know what it’s like to go into work every day and treat patients. I want to
know that the past ten years of my life will be worth the next forty. I guess
that makes me kind of bananas. Train to be a doctor, take the big paycheck,
kid. That’s what my dadu would say. My father, too.”

Sana didn’t like bringing up her father, but for some reason, he seemed
pertinent here. He’d focused on career so much that she only saw him when
he came back for birthdays and holidays. And sometimes not even then.
Mom was the one who had worked because she’d had to, because she’d had
no other options. Her father had thrown himself into his work because he’d
wanted to find an honest means to stay away. The interviewer was so focused

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