“Is my wife going to be ok?” It wasn’t words, but what his eyes said to me. I was terrified to answer. His wife was rapidly deteriorating and in septic shock. I reached my hand out and put it on his shoulder and said, “We will try our best”. Later his wife was diagnosed with Dengue hemorrhagic fever. I used my knowledge across various specialties to clear his doubts regarding the situation. The time spent comforting him in his time of need and making him understand the future medical plans made me realize the dual role-played by a doctor. My proudest moment in this case was when few other family members of my patient came to visit her and her husband gestured my way and said, “ If you have any questions about her condition ask this doctor, she is very helpful in explaining everything”. I couldn’t help but stand a bit taller, a bit straighter with a big smile on my face. I knew I was just doing my job, by educating my patients and their families, but it certainly felt amazing to know I made a difference in this person 's life. This gave me an insight about the depth involved in internal medicine and made me more interested towards it.
During my medical school, I enjoyed all my rotations, but the one that stood out, was the medicine clerkships. I enjoyed in
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I joined the department of Endocrine at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York as a research fellow. My role was to collect and analyze the data. As a result of my effort, I was able to present my abstract at the AAES conference. This work has helped me to improve my analytic and organizational skills with a deeper understanding in various endocrine conditions. These training further strengthened my resolution to seek a challenging and rewarding Internal Medicine residency training in the United
Schultz 's medical scribe has given me insight into how a true leader interacts with others on a daily basis. As a communicator, Dr. Schultz has a brilliant way of imparting medical language that is easily understandable to his patients. I can 't help but find myself repeating his simple, intuitive communication pattern. I feel the urge to do the same when I practice some day. When viewing X-rays, I appreciate how he describes degenerative joint disease as "tread on your tires" or the presence of bony spurs as "smoke around a campfire." I find that he has an ability to be straightforward with his patients, yet still be disarmingly compassionate. I want to be the kind of physician that gives full attention to his patients even after a long day at work. Dr. Schultz has tremendous energy and is committed to repeating extensive advice even if it happens to be his eighteenth patient. Beyond this, he never fails to express that God is doing the healing and that he is just putting in a device. The respect that Dr. Schultz consistently shows his patients and his inherent humility is what attracts patients to him. Though I believe I have these qualities, Dr. Schultz has showed me the bedside manner and disposition of medical expression. He has inspired me to make an extra effort with patients when I practice medicine. This will allow me to forge lasting relationships and a bond that only a physician and patient can truly
...to communicate with your patient in order for them to be updated with their family’s sickness. And also have compassion towards them. You are likely to see a lot of injuries and scenarios play out among patients that have been admitted to the hospital. There are many achievements in this field that you may accomplish. And priorities that you have to deal with. For instants your time you have to adjust your schedule.
A question I have been asked more often than not, “What would you rather be if not a doctor?” Well, my journey as a doctor has seen a share of crests and troughs, but I will not have it any other way. I am a book lover, and every good read is time saved; I have trekked mountains, and every step brought forth a sense of achievement; I have been recognized for my English debating skills many a time. Every cup held was precious, but none of it so fulfilling and rewarding as another human being trusting you with his breath. This texture of human relationships is unique to this profession, and is probably what makes it sublime to the eyes of a common man.
A major hurdle in this academic career that I hope to have is going to be the lack of expertise in the designing, implementation and evaluation of clinical trials.
Doctors should possess the skills necessary to assess what the patient actually needs contrary to what he/she believes they require. An illness obviously impacts one’s life regardless of how minuscule. A doctor plays a vital role in both the physical condition and the, often over-looked, emotional well-being of his/her patients. I firmly believe that through my experiences in two separate, but fairly similar branches of medicine I have developed the ability to care for those in a compassionate yet professional manner along with the ability comprehend the information necessary that being a health care provider
I decided that I didn’t want to join a big hospital or to immediately continue my higher studies but to utilize what I have learnt till then to serve in a remote area and to give back to the society. I joined the state primary care program as a rural physician, a decision I now cherish. In my three years in this role, I learned how to effectively prioritize and efficiently execute multiple tasks with limited resources – a skill set I believe is very useful for a physician. I am the leader at my clinic and have to continuously keep the team engaged and motivated. I work with ill-informed population and have been exposed to an array of patients dispersed across a variety of socioeconomic strata. Daily interactions with them have taught me the importance of compassion, empathy and effective communication, all of which are just as crucial as medical skills. I learned that being a doctor is not just about treating what is wrong in a biochemical and pathological context, but also the ability to earn a patient’s trust. The goal is to heal a person, not destroy the
Reminiscing over the conversation, I considered the implications of a career in family medicine. I began contemplating the vast array of illnesses around me that I was naïve of before becoming a medical student. The importance of the field could be seen all around my personal life. My father recently started losartan for hypertension, my mother and sister frequently encounter migraines, my brother’s has vitiligo of the foot, and my youngest brother has eczema on his arms in connection to his asthma. The list continues with my uncle’s rheumatoid arthritis, my aunt’s recent hepatitis infection, an aunt’s bilateral knee replacements due to osteoarthritis, two uncles with chronic back pain, and a younger cousin in Pakistan, having a limp due to improperly diagnosed hip dysplasia. Also, Pakistan, where I am from originally suffers with polio vaccination deficiency. I witnessed my uncle having polio of one leg and becoming dependent onto a wheelchair. Family medicine was the only field that would allow me to make a change in all of these
My affinity for biology comes from my childhood days that I spent watching dissection of rats and looking at the cellular structure under microscope. My mother, being a professor of biology regularly used to take me with her to a Biology lab and that is where my journey towards medical career began. Early on in my life, my family went through a long agony of my father's illness and death. This became a solitary stimulus for me to take up this profession and a driving force to strive for excellence. Going through that turmoil of recurrent hospital visits gave me a firsthand experience of an anguishing family.
In the surgery waiting room, a TV is playing quietly in the corner and families are anxiously waiting for the doctors’ news. As I wear my polo shirt and khaki uniform, family members start approaching me for questions. At the beginning I am inexperienced and nervous, need frequently consult the senior staff for advice, but quickly I am able to initiate conversations with the families, and comfort them in highly anxiety situations.
As a naïve kid growing up in India, all I wanted to be was a cricket player. I would carelessly spend hours in the 110-degree heat of New Delhi playing cricket with my friends, as our mothers would yell at us to come inside to protect us from the heat. I would wake up at the crack of dawn and practice before school; I would practice during any spare time I could find. During those times the idea of practicing medicine seemed farfetched. The concept of becoming a doctor did not cross my mind until I started volunteering at the Hinsdale Hospital E.R. during high school. I continued working at the Hinsdale Hospital not necessarily because I saw it as future career but because I was fascinated by everything around me. I made beds, transported samples back and forth from the lab, and other seemingly mundane tasks. I also talked to as many patients as I could and I slowly realized that it was not really small talk; it meant something. It meant something to me because I liked being a part of their healing process in a humble way. I would listen in
Medicine is a ever changing field. A field where new and innovative treatments replace the old. For me, medicine is a career which allows the exploration of the intricacies of the human body. It provides the opportunity to better understand how the human body works and defends itself. As it acts as an ecosystem housing chemical, cells and microbial in order to maintain equilibrium. Along with making an impact on peoples' lives with my caring personality. Becoming a physician would allow me to be directly involved in the care of those who were in need, while concurrently provide affinity for lifelong learning. The combination of my curiosity and will to practice medicine has motivated me to pursue this field.
I shadowed a primary care physician (PCP), a cardiologist, and a General surgeon in Little Rock. I was introduced to triaging, monitoring patient diets, and transitioning from diagnosis to treatment. These experiences exposed me to some of the immense responsibilities of doctors. Through my experience shadowing Dr. Richard Jackson, I learned the necessity of compassion in a physician and that it is as important as medical procedures. I observed him putting a colostomy bag on a seven-year-old girl diagnosed with colon cancer. When she recovered from surgery, he noticed she was sad and scared about the colostomy bag. He comforted her by telling stories of many other children who also had colostomy bags at a young age and finished his conversation by making funny faces at her. This made her happy and her smile expressed joy and the beauty of being alive. It taught me that a patient’s emotional health is as important as their physical health, and both factors need to be considered when providing care. This shadowing experience enabled me to see what it is like to be as a practicing physician and further reinforced my desire to be a
In order to determine whether or not clinical medicine was the right career for me, I started shadowing Dr. Richard Turner in the ER. Through my experiences with him, I learned that medicine is a problem solving process. As I watched, he would take a patient's history and try to piece together the correct diagnosis by deciding which scenarios were more likely than others. I was attracted by the dynamic nature of each patient's diagnosis and the necessity for an open mind. My hobby of flying has taught me to look at everything in life with a new perspective and to assess the situation from as many angles as possible. Watching Dr. Turner has confirmed my perception of a medical career and the nature of the work involved. Since I love puzzles and problems, the problem solving aspect also increased my desire to become a physician.
I was both excited and scared on my first day. I was curious about everything that I could see, smell and hear. I was excited because everything was new to me. The office was very quiet, all the physicians were concentrate on their work. Everything in the office was organized very well. The equipments were gleaming as they attracted me to touch. The smell of the ink was still dimly in the air. I got a little scared when I stepped into the hallway. It was really crowded, people seem very busy no matter if they were patients or physicians. People were everywhere. It was really easy to pump into someone. Rapid footsteps made flap sounds on the marble floor. The smell of the hospital special antiseptic solutions was very pungent. The call bells in the wards were very sharp, and they were coupled with the red lights in front of the wards and white walls. I had never felt more nervous before. I felt dazed because I had no idea what I could do, but this was piqued my fighting will more. Overall, I like this place. The department where I worked in was called the comprehensive internal medicine ward, and it also included a rheumatology clinic. Though I had volunteered in hospital for a very long time in school, I’ve never got a chance to get in the real business as a volunteer. So I was eager to learn everything. My instructor was a really person. He was near my father’s age, so he took care of me like his daughter....
A career in medicine has been a childhood dream for me. I was born and raised in a small and underdeveloped city in Sri Lanka, where hospitals and doctors were sparse. At the age of ten, I lost my father due to a lack of immediate medical care. Shortly thereafter, a civil war erupted and I witnessed countless deaths throughout my childhood. At a young age, I understood that many deaths could have been avoided, if the sick and injured had access to medical professionals. These experiences have fueled my passionate desire to live my life as a physician.