Compliments come from the stranges places

"You seem like a really personable person. That's a great quality to have. Y'know, it takes someone that's sincere and honest to be a good doctor. I'll bet your patients love you. You're going to be a fantastic doctor once you're done."

Take a guess who told me this. Student? Colleague? Attending? Fellow? Nurse? All good guesses. And I'd love to hear it from any of them. But those guesses would all be wrong.

The correct answer is stripper.