Personal Statement Of Becoming A Doctor

Attending medical school and becoming a doctor would fulfill a lifelong goal for me. Starting at a very young age, I have always been very interested in the sciences, particularly anatomy. As a child, all of my family members would poke fun at me for wanting to go with them to their doctor’s appointment just to look at the anatomical models or posters that might be there. My college education only furthered my fascination with how the human body works; everything from the molecular to systemic levels. I truly believe that my passion for learning new things about the human body will serve me very well once I become a doctor.

My desire to become a doctor goes further than simply finding biology and science interesting. Doctors have been a big

My mom on the other had has various long-term medical issues including lupus, osteoporosis, and hearing loss. Several years ago, my family had to change insurance carriers and my mom needed to find a new primary care physician. This process proved to be very challenging and stressful for her. For a period of about two years, my mom would constantly change who her primary care doctor was. Being an immigrant to this country and English being her second language, compounded with the hearing loss, communication was very challenging between her and her doctors. I often times would tell her that if she did not understand something or had questions to say something and that the doctor was there to make her feel better and ease her concerns. Her response would be that she would always feel embarrassed or frustrated by asking her doctor to repeat what he or she had just said multiple times because she did not hear it correctly or did not understand it. She also told me she often times felt pressured by her various doctors to take certain medications despite her objections or concerns over the side effects. Every time she would come home from the doctor’s office during these two years, I could see the frustration and look of helplessness