Doctors Diaries Summary

Goodman first discusses the competition pre-med students endure with great detail using allusion, metaphors, and repetition. She first notes Chem 20’s “Olympian anguish and Olympic competitiveness.” She uses this allusion to the Olympics in order to fully express exactly how competitive the class was by comparing it to a highly selective competition that takes years to train for. This stresses to the audience the high-pressure and nerve-racking expectations of student success in the class. Goodman then emphasizes this concept by repeating the phrase “go through...competing…” in order to convey the never-ending competition that pre-med students are in their entire lives. To the audience, this displays a sense of repetitiveness and routine in doctors’ lives. Goodman extends this beyond college by comparing the world to “a ladder to be climbed”. This metaphor exemplifies a doctor’s constant need for self-fulfillment. Goodman does this to show to the audience that the competition does not end when Chem 20 is over.

Since my summer term freshman year, I have been periodically shadowing Oscar Habhab, MD and Joseph Keenan, DO in the emergency room. Along with gaining more medical knowledge, I continue to shadow them in order to gain a better understanding of the personality required to become a successful physician.

to work with Southam. According to page 130, its states, “...three young Jewish doctors refused,saying they wouldn’t conduct research on patients without their consent.” and then on page 133 Skloot says, “Hyman compared Southam’s study to Nazi research and got affidavits from the three doctors who’d resigned - they described Southam’s research using words like illegal, immoral, and deplorable.” These lines from the text reveal how the doctors felt because of what Southam was doing. Those doctors even resigned and they testified against Southam because they knew what Southam was doing was wrong and they could not stand there and be an accomplice.

The memory of George’s struggles provides a continuous reminder of why I am pursuing a career in medicine and serves as a perpetual source of motivation. I have a responsibility to those less fortunate than me to work my hardest and to continuously improve, so I may grow to ensure that others do not needlessly suffer as George has. Moreover, the knowledge of healthcare inequities I have gained will allow me to bring the concerns of underserved populations to the Wake Forest School of Medicine and help foster the growth of physicians who are dedicated to aiding the disadvantaged. Medical school will undoubtedly be wrought with challenges; however, I am confident that dedication to ameliorate others’ suffering will allow me not only to thrive, but also enrich the learning experience of my peers.

I embrace the search for the effective, mutual beneficial relationships within medicine that aims to improve the lives of patients and fellow physicians to uncover the body’s complexities that are not always apparent through pure medical intervention. It’s not an endeavor that can be done with haste. Only with deliberate focus and care can I learn how to hone a person’s tale to their own telling and maintain their wellbeing. I look forward to the

Doctor’s Diaries showed the difficult and challenging life of doctors and how they can affect the doctor’s personal life and professional job. While watching the video, there were two occurrences that stood out to me the most. The first example was the emotional connection a doctor can have with a patient, and the second example was the difficulty of getting patients to open up to the doctors

One of the major issues in the healthcare world right now is the issue of doctor burnout. “A recent study from the Mayo Clinic showed that in 2011, 45.5% of doctors reported that they felt burned out, and that number has now risen to 54.4% in 2014” (Cahplan, 2016). Burn out is a serious concern, because it can result from a combination of many factors ranging from “emotional exhaustion (the feeling of being all used up), depersonalization (treating people in an unfeeling way), and even a reduced sense of personal accomplishment (feeling like a failure)” (DuPré, 2010, p.94).

Specific Purpose Statement: By listening to my speech, my audience will learn how medical dramas contain medical inaccuracies, wrongly depict doctor’s personal lives, and how this impacts the medical community.

Growing up I dreamed of becoming a physician because of my family’s extensive medical history that has always kept us familiar with the hospital setting. Watching television shows such as House and Grey’s Anatomy glamourized the career in that it showed physicians who often made decisions independently of the patient and without patient consent. In the end, they were always right. This idea provided the basis of my thinking of how doctors operate in a hospital. Years later when I joined the healthcare field my experiences would change these initial impressions.

Throughout each of these experiences I have had a chance to meet many people from all walks of life, with varying levels of sickness and injury, which has given me a better understanding of the challenges and rewards physicians encounter on a daily basis. Each of my clinical activities has given me a unique perspective of the patient-physician relationship. I have had experiences with patients ranging from critical trauma cases to patients as research subjects to oncology patients. Each of these experiences has added fuel to the fire in my quest to become a physician.

As a child I would run throughout the house doctoring up my mother with band aids, my brother with an ace bandage and my father with a painless shot. After several years of providing ‘medical care’ to my family, my childhood dream became a goal. From this point forward, my father posed the question: “where do you wish to attend college to attain your goal?” and my aspirations began to take shape. Knowing that The University of Oklahoma had an extraordinary medical program, I strived to better myself in order to achieve my childhood aspirations. Since these early days of youthful hopes, my identity is found in my dedication to become a

Through my years of studying banking and finance in college, little did I know that I would be in a career path of medicine today. While I Paced the hallway of the hospital my cousin was receiving care, I was mesmerized at how determined the internists were to stabilize her health and how much knowledge they possessed. This ordeal planted the seed of my passion to care for everyone like family and to continuously update myself with as much clinical and theoretical knowledge to be a better doctor with every passing day.

In today’s day, some doctors could careless about there patients well being. They care only about making money and what benefits them. “Physicians who are more comfortable with their work identity than with real intimacy”(Coles 317). This chapter reminded me that

My personal interpretation of a physician’s career involves the melding of scientific thought and objectivity with visceral emotion as well as a reconciliation of the tension between the two. While there are several other duties most physicians perform on the spectrum of clinical care to research, each responsibility is driven by the aforementioned duality. Thus far I’ve honed several skills that could be useful to a physician including interviewing and tailored communication from my journalism education and a practical grasp of healthy lifestyle design from my exercise physiology education. Through my consistent work as a writer and reporter I have a practiced awareness of my audience and how to communicate effectively by simplifying language

Doctors are important figures in society that help us in our daily medical problems or struggles. They are the reason why most people who are at the brink of death have hope that they will survive. They start as normal students, medical students, then they enter the real world of medicine that may prove to be harder than expected. There the interns have their problems, struggles, and choices that they need to choose patiently. The issues can vary from health issues to social issues that affect the junior doctor mentally and physically. These problems are included in the book “Trust Me, I’m A Junior Doctor” by Max Pemberton. In the book, there are two main issues illustrated in the book, and they are the old-fashioned way of doctors and lack of intern training.