When I walk into a hospital and see patients being treated, it reminds me of why I have such a strong passion for medicine. This is because I do not want others to experience the excruciating loss that I first felt and continue to feel after the death of my sister. I lost my sister when I was four, while I was still living in Bangladesh, to a weak and failing heart. At the time, all the top medical doctors in Dhaka failed to have the proper equipment and training to perform an open-heart surgery. Because of that experience that led to the tragic loss of my sister, I was determined to do something with my life that would lead me to help patients like my sister and families like mine from the loss and the feeling of hopelessness. While I was
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She explained that her twin sister, born a second after her, was normal, had a normal upbringing and a normal childhood. However, she, born a second before, had faced numerous challenges and had to take trial medications that had severe effects on her body like store unusual amounts of fat, edema on various parts of her body, and depression. In-spite of the continuous challenges she faced, she was in good spirits and educated me on her condition, as now she was just as expert on her condition as the experts that cared for her. I learned a lot that day; one second in medicine can mean the difference between a normal life versus a painful and uncertain future for patients. I, also, learned even though doctors want to help patients and medicine has come a long way, doctors do not always have the right answers or quick solutions to health related issues. Patients like the 16-year old I met, are people who shape the way we, aspiring doctors and doctors alike, look at medicine. Patients like her inspired me to want to learn more and research more to try to find explanations for why the brain and body behave in such an unusual …show more content…
Three years of my college years were devoted to working part-time in Dr. Anna Marie Kenny’s Neurology Lab. We studied cancers in the cerebella of mice to understand cell signaling to prevent certain types of brain tumors in children afflicted with medulloblastoma. I worked closely with the post-doctorate, Dr. Bobby Bhatia, to help him further his research study. I was responsible for genotyping. I learned, in the field of research there is years of work and collaboration with other labs to get a publication out to the science community. The life style of bench work was not a glamourous job, but rather a dedicated and challenging job. A publication on the signaling of one pathway into cancer signaling does not necessarily mean a leap to finding a cure for cancer. Researchers devote decades into studying a single pathway in the complex world within a cell to before truly having a break thorough research that can be even considered for a Nobel prize. In Dr.Kenney’s lab we were even further from that, but every step we took was a small but necessary step in the right direction in understanding how cancer signaling operates. The dynamic of the patientcare and laboratory research were different and the same. They worked in conjunction to help work towards the same goal, which was to help patients like the one I saw in
She explained that her twin sister, born a second after her, was normal, had a normal upbringing and a normal childhood. However, she, born a second before, had faced numerous challenges and had to take trial medications that had severe effects on her body like store unusual amounts of fat, edema on various parts of her body, and depression. In-spite of the continuous challenges she faced, she was in good spirits and educated me on her condition, as now she was just as expert on her condition as the experts that cared for her. I learned a lot that day; one second in medicine can mean the difference between a normal life versus a painful and uncertain future for patients. I, also, learned even though doctors want to help patients and medicine has come a long way, doctors do not always have the right answers or quick solutions to health related issues. Patients like the 16-year old I met, are people who shape the way we, aspiring doctors and doctors alike, look at medicine. Patients like her inspired me to want to learn more and research more to try to find explanations for why the brain and body behave in such an unusual …show more content…
Three years of my college years were devoted to working part-time in Dr. Anna Marie Kenny’s Neurology Lab. We studied cancers in the cerebella of mice to understand cell signaling to prevent certain types of brain tumors in children afflicted with medulloblastoma. I worked closely with the post-doctorate, Dr. Bobby Bhatia, to help him further his research study. I was responsible for genotyping. I learned, in the field of research there is years of work and collaboration with other labs to get a publication out to the science community. The life style of bench work was not a glamourous job, but rather a dedicated and challenging job. A publication on the signaling of one pathway into cancer signaling does not necessarily mean a leap to finding a cure for cancer. Researchers devote decades into studying a single pathway in the complex world within a cell to before truly having a break thorough research that can be even considered for a Nobel prize. In Dr.Kenney’s lab we were even further from that, but every step we took was a small but necessary step in the right direction in understanding how cancer signaling operates. The dynamic of the patientcare and laboratory research were different and the same. They worked in conjunction to help work towards the same goal, which was to help patients like the one I saw in