Being Born Into A Family Of Illustrious Medical Names

The medical field is a career path that brings about many options and opportunities of great value. The noble idea of being a doctor tends to cloud the diligent studying and precise training that is actually required for this career. I have wanted to become a doctor since a very young age, and now that the opportunity is here for the taking, I have fully researched what it takes to succeed in this profession and various specialties of the practice. The road to a medical degree is one filled with thousands of notes, years of schooling, and many stressful nights, but the reward is one incomparable to any other. Saving people’s lives on a day-to-day basis has been one of my dreams for as long as I can remember, so the rigorous curriculum

I took an unusual journey out of clinical medicine to seek a more rounded life experience, like Marco Polo I had no GPS or inkling where my journey would take me. My eight-year journey of discovery outside the confines of clinical medicine took me across three continents and afforded me invaluable experiences. Some of these experiences involved wearing many hats and leading individuals from multiple professional backgrounds to deliver remarkable results. These experiences have armed me with a repertoire of managerial skills and made me a more rounded physician, better able to view healthcare and its most pressing issues from larger lenses.

I was born in a farming family in a small town in southern India. My father worked in the agricultural field for thirty years.  He realized while he was working that his children should receive the best education as he had faced many problems due to his illiteracy. This motivated my father to give me the best education without which I couldn’t have come this far. When I finished  tenth grade, I had to choose either Mathematics or Biology and I opted for Biology as I had an affinity for science since my childhood. I always stood in the top ten of my class. I pursued my medical education at the distinguished institution, Guntur Medical College. I commenced medical school with the aim of becoming an internist.

I decided to pursue medicine while I was attending high school in Kolkata, India and fell in love with biology. I enjoyed engaging with people and developing meaningful relationships. I was looking for a path that would provide me with the skills to help others, both in my home country India and abroad. I felt that medicine can offer me an enriched career with the perfect balance of scientific challenge, intellectual stimulation and personal collection. Surrounded by the Himalayas in West Bengal, India, medical school further inspired my intellectual curiosity and cemented my professional identity.

Medicine has been a part of my life since as far as I could remember. The interest in this field sparked me at the moment of first experiences with the settings of a simple doctor’s office. Everything and anything that has to do with some sort of science always tends to attract my curiosity. In the seventeen years of my existence, although there is still more to learn, I believe the experiences and activities I have participated in make me a good candidate to become a successful general

Dr. Nelson, the general practitioner for whom I volunteered for two and a half years, had always told me that the desire to become a doctor must come from deep within. In his office, I took patients’ vital signs and helped them feel more comfortable. I also spent a significant amount of time with Dr. Nelson learning about the physician’s role. He became my mentor. I learned of

The importance of Integrity and the ethos in the altruistic career of medicine appealed to me to enter into this honourable career. Growing up in the deprived areas of Pakistan, healthcare is used as an excuse to make money from vulnerable patients. Living in the UK has strengthened my enthusiasm for medicine as the healthcare facilities available here are magnificent.

A series of unexpected events led me to become an orthopaedic surgeon. In the fourth year of medical school, I began to observe the orthopaedic surgeries. My supervisors were using their dexterity to repair the fractures in the bone. After the operation and rehabilitation, patients would be gaining their movement back. It was a process that took time and work, but the end result was outstanding. I would care for patients who once came in pain, watching them leave with smiles on their faces. I wanted to improve the quality of life of my patients as well.

In my junior year in college, I realized that an engineering career will not be as challenging of a trail as medicine. From very early on in my anatomy cadaver labs, I always had the impression that I would enjoy a surgical profession, but this decision for surgery did not shape until the third and fourth year of my clinical clerkships. During one of my surgery clerkships in Atlanta, I observed a young male with necrotizing fasciitis who got admitted in a critical condition. My attending was initially hopeless, but fortunately after four weeks in the ICU and a few surgeries, he survived and got transferred to the floors. I paid full attention to how Dr. Mayor was refining his strategic methods to save his patient’s life. He was consulting a group of diverse physicians from various departments, and collaborating many assessments into his plans.

Surgery, complex and delicate is perceived like a work of art being mastered at its finest. Many kids dream to be a chef, an astronaut, or most commonly, a teacher when they grow up. On the contrary, I had no idea what I wanted to be until this year. We all have a dream or desire in this world. A dream to become famous, noticed, to go to college or to become rich. My dream is to become the best surgeon that I can make of myself with hard work, patience and an ample amount of dedication. Around 2015, I started watching a TV show called “Grey’s Anatomy.” Grey’s Anatomy is an action filled series about surgeries. When I watched the first episode I was hooked on the idea of becoming a surgeon like a fish is to its bait. Consequently, I could not

I have always been a goal oriented and reaching-for-the-stars individual. Medicine not only excites and thrills me but has become a part of me that I am dedicated to and passionate about. Everyday changes in medicine are improving the healthcare of patients and I want to become a part of your surgical family to be intrinsically involved in these changes. I look forward to starting a residency program that will help mold and provide me with the skills necessary to become a great surgeon. I am committed and conscientious to everything I set my mind on and education plays a major and continuing role in my lifestyle. In addition to my daily commitment to my patients, I am interested in performing research to help develop new techniques and treatments. Surgery has become a high tech medicine, and the best surgeons are the ones that reach out a hand of encouragement to their patients to gain their confidence

With my training within the army, I have gained the superficial knowledge into the world of medical science. Through hands-on experiences, there are many skills that can only be taught first-hand. At first glance, I was unsure of my limitations. However, through trials and corrections I have gained vast knowledge and confidence. As I proceeded, I’ve gained the respect and hope of life. I have come to conclude that I prefer to proceed within the medical field. As I worked along Physicians and Medicals Assistants, I’ve grown to become accommodated with the medical field. Therefore, I wish to advance and discover, as well as to further educate, myself in the medical field.

Whenever I visited my grandfather in his hometown, I was struck by how often people would stop to thank him for mending broken bones or treating their clubfoot as an orthopedic surgeon. It was during these moments when I first realized the profound impact of practicing medicine.

One of my great inspirations, passions, and preoccupations is surgery. In particular, the art of surgery as my ultimate career goal is to become the “World’s Greatest Surgeon” with respects to Dr. DeBakey and Dr. Cushing, two of my greatest idols. Although, no one in my family or even extended family is a physician, I fell in love with the field of medicine when I began

You can’t expect my life story to be exciting to the point where you wish you were me, because it’s not. All I can say for myself is “wow”. I can’t believe I survived Kasturba Medical College (KMC) in India. It’s one of the top 10 medical colleges in India and it was a lot of work (citation 1). After medical college I did my masters, which helped me specialize in cardiac surgery. Each summer I would come back to the United States to do an internship at Tufts. I’m glad my schooling worked out okay in India because if I choose to study in the United States, I would have to be in school for a total of ten years before I could began my residency. But studying in India allowed me to study ten years worth of material in six years, and not to