"IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY."

It was a horrible day at the end of our surgical clerkship. Days were getting shorter and colder. The weather was foul and all of us were exhausted and miserable. At the beginning of the didactic session, Dr. Charles J. McCabe asked one of the students, "What kind of a day is it?" The student's reply: "It's a horrible day." Dr. McCabe would reply, "No, it's a beautiful day."