louis post-dispatch and i met a fellow there a very good guy an editor named john curley who had grown up in manhattan and he had taken a liking to me and admired my gumption in coming and asking for an internship and in the end offered me an internship and then faced with this decision, how to i do an internship at the st. louis post-dispatch while i am in medical school? i called my brother and said i have an opportunity, i kind of want to do it but they are going to keep track. i can't be away from medical school for large amounts of time and he said you know what? there are many hours in the day. remembered that and i thought i am going to go with this. i went to the st. louis post-dispatch and they started giving me stories. i would drive out there after morning classes, skip the afternoon and read the transcription and show up at 1:00, my editor there would say you know what? we want you to write -- there are a lot of people getting stung by wasps. we want you to write a piece about people getting stung by wasps and you have until 5:00. it would just be like okay, and it was tria