As I come from a family of physicians, I might be expected to know well what medical career, if any, I should pursue and what a physician’s job is really like. But I have had an eye-opening experience while rotating as a pre-med college student at University of South Dakota Medical Center. I compare it to reading about a famous painting versus looking at it directly. I thought I knew, yet I learned so much more about what the job of a physician is really about.