Adventure fills the soul, and so does Medicine. While working for two years as a Medical Officer in rural Nepal, I examined cases from different departments be it Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics or Obstetrics and Gynecology. Our hospital served as a referral center for three neighboring districts with a population of, about 600,000. We were limited medical officers managing patients independently. This came with a lot of responsibility and for the first time, I realized that I was dealing with a patient’s life all by myself. I started cautiously, slowly gathering confidence which later became a storehouse of experience. From conducting complicated deliveries and suturing cervical tears to conducting post-mortems, every day, offered something new to learn from. Domestic abuse, migrant workers suffering from AIDS, RTA with mass casualties flooding the emergency department, wards full of elderly with COPD and enteric fever and children with pneumonia, intoxicated and belligerent patients, young girls with OP poisoning, housewives with conversion disorder became
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As a part of my duty and due to my love for traveling, I was involved in many health camps in rural villages, walking for days to reach there. This was what I loved, getting to know people. I thought I was good with them. Teaching things like basic hand washing to the importance of breastfeeding, emphasizing the importance of antenatal care to campaigning for vaccination was exhilarating. Working in areas with limited facilities brought to my notice the importance of clinical skills and judgment and there my knowledge of Internal Medicine came in very handy. I am thankful to my teachers, for they had been the ones to shape my interest in Medicine since my third year in Medical school. I realized medicine is a vast subject with immense possibilities to serve an infinite number of
As a part of my duty and due to my love for traveling, I was involved in many health camps in rural villages, walking for days to reach there. This was what I loved, getting to know people. I thought I was good with them. Teaching things like basic hand washing to the importance of breastfeeding, emphasizing the importance of antenatal care to campaigning for vaccination was exhilarating. Working in areas with limited facilities brought to my notice the importance of clinical skills and judgment and there my knowledge of Internal Medicine came in very handy. I am thankful to my teachers, for they had been the ones to shape my interest in Medicine since my third year in Medical school. I realized medicine is a vast subject with immense possibilities to serve an infinite number of