"A wise professor of mine compelled us on our first day of training to know our superpower. She advised it may be the only thing to get you through the darkest of days."

Nurse practitioner student Emily Friedman dedicates her essay to the patient who, in one of his darkest days, shed light on her superpower.

This essay placed in the 2020 Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest and was published in the December 2020 issue of Academic Medicine. Read the essay at academicmedicine.org.