In my Seattle clinic, I usually feel I have one chance to fix a patient and all I’m doing is trying to get in the ballpark, so Dillon was so educational. It’s the only rotation where you’re in the same clinic every day, eight hours per day. The patients were ranchers and cowboys, tough guys with terrible problems that you could do something about, like a guy with diabetes who brought me his home glucose numbers and actually followed up the next week. My clinical skills improved so much from seeing patients back and seeing if what I’d tried had worked. My preceptor, Dr. Loge, has been in Dillon twenty-five years. He’s one of the most important mentors I’ve met. He has that clinical intuition you only develop after years and years, and he really knows the medical literature. The rotation with him really changed my outlook, even though I’m not doing primary care. I’m going into cardiology and I’ve thought about being a small town cardiologist with a small primary care practice, now that I’ve experienced what it’s like to know patients for twenty years.