Sitting in the nurse’s station, I impatiently wait for my mother to finish her morning rounds at the nursing home. It is summertime, and I am eager to be dropped off at my Vacation Bible School church camp. A resident parked in her wheelchair down the hallway begins yelling, “Help me! I’m dying! Help!” over and over again. Worried, I begin frantically looking for a nurse to come help. One suddenly appears at the patient’s side, and asks what the problem was. Their response: they had a hangnail that needed clipped. When I was younger, I spent many hours at the hospital or private practice while my mom was working. Having a nurse practitioner mother has provided me countless opportunities to experience doctors and nurses interacting with their
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I understand that the path to become a medical doctor is a long, difficult journey. It takes hard work, determination, and commitment. My past as a softball pitcher has given plenty of practice with these characteristics. I had to practice almost daily to stay in shape to avoid getting hurt as well as performing well in games. While my peers were enjoying their free time during the summer, I was practicing throughout the week and playing in tournaments every weekend. While I could have easily not practiced and spent my time doing other things, I knew that I had to put in the work to carry my team. After the injury of some of my teammates, I was the only pitcher and my team depended on me to perform …show more content…
Through this responsibility came great stress. Rather than being taken out when having a bad game, I had to fight through till the end with no relief. This is the aspect that I believe has greatly prepared me for a career in the medical field. Being a medical doctor is exceptionally stressful, as is pitching to the four hitter in the lineup while the winning run is on third base. The physician must diagnose their patient correctly and prescribe the appropriate treatment or medication, and the pitcher must place the ball just right so that the batter does not get a solid hit. While these two situations have vastly different consequences, either the patients’ health or winning the game, both scenarios place exercise the idea of dealing with stress. My experience playing softball has given me a tremendous amount of practice dealing with different types of stress and how to face it. For softball, I knew that I needed to work hard to accomplish my goals of performing well on the mound. If I did not work hard enough, the consequence could be letting my team down through a loss. Preventing ‘losses’ as a physician includes putting in the work to study and obtain a vast amount of knowledge so that I perform well by providing my patients with the best
I understand that the path to become a medical doctor is a long, difficult journey. It takes hard work, determination, and commitment. My past as a softball pitcher has given plenty of practice with these characteristics. I had to practice almost daily to stay in shape to avoid getting hurt as well as performing well in games. While my peers were enjoying their free time during the summer, I was practicing throughout the week and playing in tournaments every weekend. While I could have easily not practiced and spent my time doing other things, I knew that I had to put in the work to carry my team. After the injury of some of my teammates, I was the only pitcher and my team depended on me to perform …show more content…
Through this responsibility came great stress. Rather than being taken out when having a bad game, I had to fight through till the end with no relief. This is the aspect that I believe has greatly prepared me for a career in the medical field. Being a medical doctor is exceptionally stressful, as is pitching to the four hitter in the lineup while the winning run is on third base. The physician must diagnose their patient correctly and prescribe the appropriate treatment or medication, and the pitcher must place the ball just right so that the batter does not get a solid hit. While these two situations have vastly different consequences, either the patients’ health or winning the game, both scenarios place exercise the idea of dealing with stress. My experience playing softball has given me a tremendous amount of practice dealing with different types of stress and how to face it. For softball, I knew that I needed to work hard to accomplish my goals of performing well on the mound. If I did not work hard enough, the consequence could be letting my team down through a loss. Preventing ‘losses’ as a physician includes putting in the work to study and obtain a vast amount of knowledge so that I perform well by providing my patients with the best