“But you’re my doctor,” she said when I mentioned that the attending physician would soon be in to examine her. “And I ordered something special for you.” She unfolded a napkin on her breakfast tray. Inside lay single-serving packets of peanut butter and grape jelly, an ode to my professed love of the Smucker’s Uncrustables peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that had helped me get through my first year of residency. In that moment — after a harrowing year in the trenches of the pandemic — I remembered why I chose medicine. — Dr. Miriam Robin