In working long shifts in the ICU as a resident, Shiv Rao learned a lot about himself.
"I had lots of epiphanies and found that I loved high intensity, high acuity," said Rao. "Emotionally, I can maintain equipoise in those ICU settings. So, I realized that I like the acuity of life or death situations—the more pressure, the better. That’s why I ended up going into cardiology. With heart attacks, you have to react, and there’s the intensity of surgery and procedures—but you also get relationships. You’re talking to people, and you’re hearing their stories."
