What Tennis Teaches Doctors About Medicine

What does learning a new sport have to do with practicing medicine?In this episode of Curie, urologist Dr. Fara Bellows reflects on the unexpected parallels between tennis and clinical practice – from procedural muscle memory and strategic thinking, to failure, perfectionism, and the relief of lower stakes. She shares how becoming a beginner again reshaped her relationship to medicine, why hobbies matter more than we often admit, and what physicians can gain from pursuits that exist entirely outside the exam room.A conversation about joy, identity, and why there’s always another point to play.