I was 10-years-old, and in fifth grade when my grandmother was diagnosed with tuberculosis and had a lung biopsy. I used to visit her in the hospital with my father every day. All the anatomy pictures on the hospital wall intrigued me. After a while, unlike most 10 year olds, I loved visiting the hospital. I watched the doctors and the nurses taking care of the patients, and this gave me my first insight into what I wanted to be when I grew up. At the age of sixteen I started volunteering for Shore Memorial Hospital. Volunteering gave me a better understanding of day to day patient care, working alongside of doctors and nurses gave me a better understanding of how truly diversity is caring for patients really is. Patient care is changing rapidly now, and no
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The more I studied, the more my desire for perusing a career in medicine grew. During my freshmen year in college, I started working for Atlantic Care Hospital as a patient companion, giving me more hands on time with the patients. During my junior and senior year, I worked as a Phlebotomist at Hahnemann University hospital. This job has brought me even closer to my goal by giving me increased responsibility, and a greater impact on patient care. Now, at the culmination of these experiences, I am confident in my ability to relate to patients with true compassion and empathy. I desire to be a physician assistant with the aspiration of someday playing a key role on a medical team. I would like to carry the same enthusiasm I have for going to physician assistant school to my work by working as a true advocate for the patients I serve. I have always been there for people that need someone to listen, a shoulder to cry on, or even when they need a hug. Beyond just providing the best patient care I possibly can, I would like to be there from the tiniest things to the major medical
The more I studied, the more my desire for perusing a career in medicine grew. During my freshmen year in college, I started working for Atlantic Care Hospital as a patient companion, giving me more hands on time with the patients. During my junior and senior year, I worked as a Phlebotomist at Hahnemann University hospital. This job has brought me even closer to my goal by giving me increased responsibility, and a greater impact on patient care. Now, at the culmination of these experiences, I am confident in my ability to relate to patients with true compassion and empathy. I desire to be a physician assistant with the aspiration of someday playing a key role on a medical team. I would like to carry the same enthusiasm I have for going to physician assistant school to my work by working as a true advocate for the patients I serve. I have always been there for people that need someone to listen, a shoulder to cry on, or even when they need a hug. Beyond just providing the best patient care I possibly can, I would like to be there from the tiniest things to the major medical