Success
Bonnie OlsenAt first, things were going brilliantly. I'd graduated tops in Pre-Med, tops in chemistry, and scored high in the MCATs. My next step, a super-elite medical school. But admissions processes take time, so in the interim, I landed myself the sweetest job a prospective medical student can hope for: laboratory research technician.
Except, as it turned out, the only "laboratory" part of it was that my desk sat in an unused lab. True, the room was still stocked with beakers, test tubes, and reagents, but they had nothing to do with my job. My job involved visiting the hospital's oncology ward and asking its middle-aged female patients to sign a form.
"Consenting," this process is called, the recruiting of prospective subjects for a study. Did the patient understand she mig
