In family medicine, there is a symmetry of physicians' involvement in patients' lives, shepherding families through life transitions in the beginning, middle, and end. As a teaching physician, the author bears witness to another "birth" in the development of resident physicians. This poem on symmetry was born on a particularly poignant day: helping a new intern "catch" his first baby in the morning, then gathering with the author's own family in the evening for the passing of her grandmother. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).