Personal Experience: Poem Analysis

I felt myself come undone. I had practiced before-how to deliver bad news to a patient-but didn’t expect to become a patient receiving it. “Give them a warning shot,” I heard echo in my mind right as my doctor began to say, “We have some bad news.”
My leave of absence from medical school came from this bad news. I experienced complications with a pregnancy, requiring me to take time away from my education. I became personally familiar with how life can sometimes seem to deal you a hand that is a bit too much. When I was in the middle, Emily Dickinson’s poem resonated with me: my thoughts disconnected and raveling just out of reach from myself, eluding my ability to put them together to make sense of my experience. However, what solace I did not find in Emily Dickinson’s poem, I found in medicine. I learned that you are able to come through tough times and develop a hope and resilience emerging from that same darkness. Where I once thought the tragedies’ of others would bring me great sadness, I found great joy in helping them find their resilience and give them hope.
It wasn’t surprising to me then, that …show more content…
I have learned how important it is to manage stress, and I have found wonderful outlets to do so through hiking and dancing, therefore I want to see a residency program that also recognizes the importance of stress management, not only in their staff, but also in their patients. Additionally, I hope to find a home at an institution who is on the cutting edge of advancing the field through research, who still emphasizes clinical service to their patients, and impresses the importance of these things on their students through a training that contains a continually updated curriculum to keep pace with the changing field. (insert other things I want from a residency