While attending Cornell University as a pre-medical student majoring in chemical engineering, I met and fell in love with my wife. She invited me to meet her parents which I happily accepted. Upon discovering that her father was a nephrologist, I pounced on an opportunity to shadow him at his work. I was surprised to discover the heavy utilization of chemical engineering in the field of nephrology and was intrigued. Although I was initially drawn to nephrology due to the science of dialysis, my interest in the field grew as I came to understand the importance of the patient-physician relationship in me...