Wall Street Journal Analysis

In sweating discomfort of the summertime heat, I filed twelve hours through Hong Kong International Airport with my overweight bags, tired eyes, and a dozen of questions about commitment into medicine deriving from hesitation and controversy. Approaching customs, I noticed the intensity and seriousness on the faces of the customs officers whose responsibility were to check passport and question passengers for reason to come to Hong Kong. As I moved closer to the front of the line, I noticed someone reading iconic of economics newspaper “Wall Street Journal”. What a sarcastic contrast to myself, I hope to pursue a new six-year medicine degree in Hong Kong as a new U.S. immigrant and an Economics-major undergraduate student. When I reached the front of the line, the customs officer glanced at me and with authoritative curiosity asked me, “Why you come to Hong Kong?” I …show more content…
In quest to understand where I fit into society, I used to provide a link between medicine and economics. Medicine and economics are fundamentally different; medicine is a career driven by service to provide best effort you can and tasked with putting others first while economics is grounded on the concept of social behaviors and humanity. Physicians are constantly balancing the reality of a person’s humanity and illness in which they are caring for. The physicians I have found to be most effective and outstanding were those who were equally as observant and perceptive of my belief as they were my symptoms. Pursuing an economics degree never fluctuates my commitment between economics and medicine. On the contrary, pursuing an economics degree has trained me to become an observant and perceptive person. Therefore, my pursuing to become a physician has always validated, never contradicted by my