At first glance, fairytales and medicine seem like they belong to completely different worlds.

Fairytales are built from magic, imagination, and impossible transformations.

Medicine is built from science, protocols, and certainty.

One speaks the language of spells.

The other speaks the language of symptoms.

But the more time I spend in medicine, the more I have started noticing something unexpected.

Medicine begins to resemble a fairytale — just without the magic wand.