Once a month, Leo took his modified electric hatchback to a legal drag strip. The speed was the only thing that could drown out the mental loop of patient charts.
At 17, Leo Park’s life was a constant exercise in code-switching. By 7:00 AM, he was "Dr. Park," a surgical resident at St. Jude’s who had fast-tracked through med school as a prodigy. By 7:00 PM, he was just Leo—a kid who still had to ask his mom if he could borrow the car. The Morning Scrub naked teen doctor
For Leo, entertainment wasn't just fun; it was a decompression chamber. Because his day job was so clinical and life-or-death, his leisure time was aggressively low-stakes: Once a month, Leo took his modified electric