Please share a meaningful experience you have had working or volunteering in the health professional field or a time in your past in which you were responsible for the care and well-being of someone else. What did you learn from this as it relates to becoming a physician? (Limit: 350 words)
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Down the emergency room hallway, a man was weeping in his bed. Nurses, emergency medicine technicians, and even physicians, strolled past this man without the slightest regard for his presence. As I approached this man, I noticed his eyes. Swollen and red, as if he had been crying since I arrived to my volunteer shift an hour prior. I offered him a blanket or water and he refused both. Walking away, he began to weep again and I felt …show more content…
Physicians encounter countless people during their careers, even beginning in the years as a medical student. Learning about the people behind it all is an activity I find fulfilling and is a major motive in my choice to pursue medicine. Each patient is simply a person, maybe with a family, or even a vastly complex background. Getting to know that person, not only the disease or illness they have, may relieve the tension and anxiety they more than likely are experiencing. The man weeping in the hallway was simply scared and alone, hoping to be reunited with his family. Alleviating this situation, as well as similar situations in the future, is something I look forward to as a …show more content…
I fought myself constantly, never knowing how to act on what I was sensing. I feared rejection from my friends, my teammates, and even worse, my family. I concealed it all the best I could, but knew it would inevitably surface. I put up an act for five years to protect myself. This prevented me from developing confidence during my high school years and even caused me to develop a mild case of obsessive compulsive disorder. As I grew more independent in college, it became clear that I needed to face and accept the reality I refused to come to terms with. During my Junior year, I came out to my family, teammates, and friends, and began a new relationship with a wonderful girl. I finally felt peace, but knew I could not be the only person to have faced this complex and difficult
(Reusing AT Still)
Down the emergency room hallway, a man was weeping in his bed. Nurses, emergency medicine technicians, and even physicians, strolled past this man without the slightest regard for his presence. As I approached this man, I noticed his eyes. Swollen and red, as if he had been crying since I arrived to my volunteer shift an hour prior. I offered him a blanket or water and he refused both. Walking away, he began to weep again and I felt …show more content…
Physicians encounter countless people during their careers, even beginning in the years as a medical student. Learning about the people behind it all is an activity I find fulfilling and is a major motive in my choice to pursue medicine. Each patient is simply a person, maybe with a family, or even a vastly complex background. Getting to know that person, not only the disease or illness they have, may relieve the tension and anxiety they more than likely are experiencing. The man weeping in the hallway was simply scared and alone, hoping to be reunited with his family. Alleviating this situation, as well as similar situations in the future, is something I look forward to as a …show more content…
I fought myself constantly, never knowing how to act on what I was sensing. I feared rejection from my friends, my teammates, and even worse, my family. I concealed it all the best I could, but knew it would inevitably surface. I put up an act for five years to protect myself. This prevented me from developing confidence during my high school years and even caused me to develop a mild case of obsessive compulsive disorder. As I grew more independent in college, it became clear that I needed to face and accept the reality I refused to come to terms with. During my Junior year, I came out to my family, teammates, and friends, and began a new relationship with a wonderful girl. I finally felt peace, but knew I could not be the only person to have faced this complex and difficult