My Most Traumatic Experience Essay

It was in 2nd grade when I first rushed to the hospital for an asthma attack. It was my first attack and at the time I do not think I had ever been so scared. Between being loaded into the ambulance, not knowing what was going on, and wondering if I was going to die this experience should have been one of the most traumatic experience of my life, however it was not. Once I got to the hospital they checked me into a room and a doctor came into the room and sat with me as we waited for my parents who had left work frantic to know why I was taken to the hospital. The one thing that I remember most from that experience wasn’t the treatment, or how smart the doctor was but it was the compassion he showed on me: a scared 2nd grader who had never been in …show more content…
Fast forward 5 years and I am back in the ER again but this time I’m in Florida and the patient isn’t me but my father. Once again I’m scared and I’m worry that he’s not going to make it and once again the doctors who come in and take away the fear that me and my family have. At this point I realize that I want to do that with my life. I want to help people especially when they are at their most vulnerable. So I asked the doctor how do I grow up to be him, he told me that I need to study hard, get good grades and get into medical school. When I heard that I thought to myself that’s easy, I already good grades and I do all of my homework so all I have to do is get into this thing call medical school and I’ll be just like the him and the doctor that sat with me when I was in the emergency room a few years back. Looking back I wish I could tell that 13 year old that the road he would take to get to where he is today would be long, arduous with the gratification of his work being few and far