I Want To Be A Junior Volunteerer

I would like to be a junior volunteer at Geisinger because I want to experience what it is like at a hospital. I would like to see where I might work when I am older. I want to make sure that I like it. I have wanted to be a doctor for a while but I have never found out how exactly it would be like, so this would be a perfect opportunity for me. Ever since I was 9, I wanted to be a doctor. When I was in 3rd grade, I didn’t know exactly what kind of doctor I wanted to be. I thought that there was only two types of doctors land they were the dentist and the pediatrician that gave me checkups and the shots that I absolutely hated and still do, but I will get over that. Hopefully. As I became older, I realized that that wasn’t the case. There are many different doctors …show more content…
Robert Heath, was head of the Orthopedics department when he worked as a doctor, so I guess I have it in my blood. I never really got to meet him because he died when I was young, but I wish that I could have because from what I have heard, he was a really nice man. I want to learn what it is like at a hospital because I don’t want to go through six to eight years of college and then realize that I hate my job and regret it. That would be horrible and I know that there are people somewhere in the world that have done that, so it is great that Geisinger is letting teenages get this experience. I would like to work, like I said, in the Orthopedics department because that is where I am most interested in working. I would like to learn how to get around the hospital because the last time I was there which was about a year ago in May, I broke my arm during softball (it was actually a buckle fracture) and I went with my mom who knew her way all around the hospital but I just followed her around wondering how hard it would be for someone who just started working there to find their way around. Therefore, this is why I would like to be part of the Junior Volunteer Program at