Multiple reasons could be provided for reasons why one would want to be a healthcare professional such as the salary and recognition. However, my reason involves personal involvement with numerous hospital visits that surrounded me with caring doctors with the will to help people. My mother suffers from chronic compression and stress fractures in her lumbar, this one complication has led to many doctor appointments in which I have attended. Seeing the doctors so committed to helping her as they do with every other patient they see is my main reason for wanting to go into the medical field. I see many qualities within myself that I believe will help me in this field and also contribute the the reason I want to go into medicine. I am very
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Another quality I have is persistence, I am not the kind of person to just give up when things get hard, I will constantly push in order to achieve any goal I set my mind to. Empathy and selflessness are two other traits I have. I have the ability to put myself in someone else’s shoes in order to understand and console them. I tend to put others before myself and I am always searching for a way to help people, which is what I see the medical field as; a way to help others live their best life possible. Due to the amount of hardships I have experienced throughout my life, such as coming from a one parent household and growing up with less of an economic advantage than others around me, I have learned to work hard. Things have never been given to me and I have had to work for everything I have received. Also due to my personal situation, I have always had a will to make others lives better than mine, and this can all start with helping them as patients and influencing their lifestyle. My work ethic and traits that I have developed throughout the bumps I have faced in my life will allow many more successes and being admitted into the K-HOP program will be proof that no matter what background someone comes from, they can still succeed and
Another quality I have is persistence, I am not the kind of person to just give up when things get hard, I will constantly push in order to achieve any goal I set my mind to. Empathy and selflessness are two other traits I have. I have the ability to put myself in someone else’s shoes in order to understand and console them. I tend to put others before myself and I am always searching for a way to help people, which is what I see the medical field as; a way to help others live their best life possible. Due to the amount of hardships I have experienced throughout my life, such as coming from a one parent household and growing up with less of an economic advantage than others around me, I have learned to work hard. Things have never been given to me and I have had to work for everything I have received. Also due to my personal situation, I have always had a will to make others lives better than mine, and this can all start with helping them as patients and influencing their lifestyle. My work ethic and traits that I have developed throughout the bumps I have faced in my life will allow many more successes and being admitted into the K-HOP program will be proof that no matter what background someone comes from, they can still succeed and