Elizabeth Guenthner, a resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, might have thought twice about agreeing to go out with her internal medicine intern Gary Nabel, had she known their first date would turn out like a scene from Pulp Fiction. While deciding what to order, a masked man appeared in the restaurant, pointing a gun at the chef and shouting for everyone’s money. The gunman fled the scene with a fistful of wallets. The owners of the restaurant came out and offered all of the patrons a free dinner. Most just went home, but Nabel and Guenthner were poor and tired med students, so they stayed and ate the free meal. “I was amazed that she was so graceful under pressure,” Nabel recalls.
Just a little over a year later they were married.
From keeping their cool during a stickup to dealing with new career opportunities, their ability to make ...
