Personal Essay: Evidence Based Medicine

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“Medicine”, a career for some and a profession for others, but for me it has been a journey. A journey that has brought along many surprises and was filled with challenges at every step. During this journey I have had many memorable moments. Some of which that I particularly remember are presenting my first case history, conducting a delivery by myself in OBGY, touching a live human heart while assisting a CABG, and so forth. The joy of all this has been overwhelming, but still it could not be compared with the feeling that I had when I made a child and his parents smile.
It was during my final year pediatric rotations, when I came across a case of 6 year old boy admitted with epistaxis and diagnosed to have dengue hemorrhagic fever with significant thrombocytopenia. His condition required urgent platelet transfusions. But a blood bank in the rural hospital like ours wasn’t fully equipped to issue us with platelets immediately. The blood bank official asked the family to arrange them from elsewhere. Being from a poor and uneducated background, family members were left clueless as to what to do next. They approached us immediately and the resident assigned me the job to …show more content…

I was exposed to an entirely new system of health care and “Evidence Based Medicine”. My internship in pediatric cardiology was a remarkable experience. During my rotations, I was thought how to differentiate each kind of murmur and also got to witness various kinds of congenital heart diseases that I had read about. I also got a chance to visit the Cath lab, where I saw different procedures being done to treat the congenital heart anomalies. The technology, the patient care and the health care system amazed me. The grand rounds and case discussions captured my attention. This experience solidified my decision to pursue my dream of Pediatric Residency in the best health care system around the

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