Why'd you stop being a surgeon?
I killed someone. [beat] Or, more accurately, I couldn't save someone, but it felt like killing them.
You were an emergency room surgeon. It had to happen from time to time.
It happened one time too many. I transferred my passion for anatomy into the culinary arts. I fix minds instead of bodies, and no one's died as a result of my therapy.
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