Why Do Life Experiences And Events Affect Your Career Choice?

Some life experiences and events leave a significant impact on our career choice, and we start thinking in a particular direction. Later on, it becomes our passion. I was born and raised in rural, lower middle class family where resources were very limited. Due to poor availability of immediate and proper health care we lost my younger sister who was suffering from pneumonia. After 2 year my mother also died due to septic abortion. Although it was an inciting event, routine school physical checkup, red-cross society’s selfless relief camps in natural calamities and countless other experiences strengthened my resolve to be physician and not let the people die due to lack of medical care.

After basic science education, I went to medical school, and it was a moment of pride for me and my family members to have the first doctor in our family. In the beginning of hospital rotation during second year, I realised my new role when patients and their parents asked about their disease, management, and prognosis. At that stage, I did not have enough experience to answer accurately, but it made me curious to learn more and more about patho-physiology and clinical course of various diseases. Premature babies admitted in NICU with their strong will to survive, leukemic bald babies with cute smiles, and wrinkled poor old men

Meanwhile by learning and earning I became ECFMG certified. In United States, rotating at multiple and different tier of health care center, I noticed a large section of pediatrics population are suffering from chronic morbidities like obesity, diabetes, hypertension, allergies, auto-immune diseases and cancers. Exposure to the practice of adolescent medicine, child abuse and behavior modification, and nursing home care of disabled and debilitated patients helped me to see a socio-behavioral aspect of