One of the first things I learned in medical school is that medicine is, indeed, an art—not a science. So is parenting.
This is something I learned long after becoming a pediatrician, but shortly after becoming a parent. Having grown up in a home with a mother who is truly an artist (the paint-to-canvas kind), and my own natural proclivity for all things science, the marriage of science and art was an easy one for me to embrace.
Both parenting and doctoring require life-long learning. I’ve been a doctor for 11 years and a parent for only five, and every day I learn something new about both.
