He spent thousands on a vintage arcade setup in his basement. There were no consequences in Pac-Man —if you died, you just popped in another quarter.
The hardest part of the teen doctor lifestyle wasn't the blood; it was the social bankruptcy. Leo lived in two worlds but belonged to neither.
In the hospital breakroom, the older doctors talked about mortgages, divorces, and golf. Leo would just nod and sip his lukewarm espresso, trying not to mention that he’d just beaten his high score in Valorant the night before. Conversely, when he tried to hang out with his neighborhood friends, the gap was a canyon. They complained about "hard" math homework; he’d spent his morning stabilizing a collapsed lung. Entertainment: The Escape
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: