Essay On Why I Want To Be A Doctor

At the age of ten, I read a book, “Gifted Hands” by Dr. Ben Carson, which inspired and begin to motivate my interest in pursuing medicine as a career because I could identify with his discovery of the joy of reading and his fascination with science. When I was 14, I had an epiphany at the doctor’s office. This event occurred a little after I had finished my final exams in school and the next step was to go to senior high school. But, I thought the preliminary chemistry and physics classes of junior high school were daunting and went on to convince myself that a career in medicine might not be right for me.

The reason that I choose the medical field is because since I was a child, I've always helped my mom who suffered from MS. Her condition made her suffer from not being able to a lot of things on her own such as, cooking cleaning and bathing herself. My mom had multiple strokes in her lifetime that would cause her not being able to take care of herself. I would definitely say that you will have to be a strong person to help take care of those in need. It has prepared me for all the ups and downs which An RN will have to endure in their career such as learning how to handle people who cannot care for their self's. it made it easier for me to choose what I wanted to do in life. Especially preparing for her death. On January 16, 2016 my mom's fight with MS finally ended. I watched her lay there which one of the hardest

Boys are two times more likely than girls to receive such a diagnosis. (King, 2013).

The likelihood of close relatives sharing the same recessive alleles is greater than in the general population, raising the risks that a child would be homozygous recessive for a trait.

1. What is the likelihood that any of their children (sons and/or daughters) will be born with the disorder?

I stood with a look of wonderment as I watched the beehive of physicians, radiologists, nurses, and paramedics collaboratively save a man’s life. The scene initially appeared chaotic with scrubs flying around and doctors swarming all over, but in actuality the team was extremely single-minded—as if driven by instinct. I was amazed by the speed and conviction with which the attending doctor made his decisions; his training and experience was evident with every move. Seeing the tearful wife thank the doctor highlighted the impact of his work—his actions had saved a husband and a father. I left admiring both the competency of emergency physicians and their ability to touch lives in such a dramatic way. While my enjoyment of high school biology sparked my original inclination towards medicine, my first hand experiences in the hospital deepened my motivation and left me steadfast in my decision to become a doctor.

Medicine has the capability to cure or alleviated illness, and it even brings people together such as a doctor and the patients that seek their consult. My practicum class has helped me learn the skills necessary to become a physician, which includes taking vitals, patient assessment, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, etc. Likewise, my experience in the hospital setting has helped me achieve one quality of becoming a doctor, which is communication. I learned this task through interacting and talking to the numerous amounts of visitors to the hospital and even talking to the patients

2. What does consanguineous mean? Why is this concept especially important when discussing recessive genetic disorders?

This disease is genetically inherited and is a dominant characteristic, therefore unfortunately the offspring of a victim has 50% chance of inheriting the disease.

This happens when an affected parent has one recessive gene and one dominant gene whereas the other has two recessive genes, which allows two children to get two recessive genes meaning they will not be affected. Whereas the other two have one dominant gene meaning they will be affected by the disease.

You married someone who doesn’t have the disease, but they are recessive. Would you still have children? The possibility of your children getting this disease is a 50-50 chance. It brings a lot of thought to your mind right? The disease I am talking about is Huntington’s disease. This disease causes, clumping in the brain and causes the death of nearby nerve cells. A brain area responsible for coordinating movement, and of the cortex, which controls thought, perception and memory, are most often affected.

States. If both parents are carriers of this mutated gene, their child will have a 25% chance

PKU is passed on in a “autosomal recessive” gene. This means that a person may have one of the genes for the disease but if they have the other dominant gene they will not be affected by the disease. In the diagram ‘P’ is the dominant gene and ‘p’ is the recessive gene. People who have one recessive gene and one dominant gene ‘Pp’ are called silent carriers. The person with ‘PP’ does not have any of the PKU gene. The person with ‘pp’ has PKU. Each time two carriers reproduce the chances the baby of having PKU is 25%. The chances of them being a silent carrier is 50%. One in every about fifty people in the general population are carriers. And the chances of that carrier’s mate is a carrier is about one in 2500. PKU occurs in about one of out every 10,00 babies born in the United States. Incidents of this disease occur equally in male and female babies.

If Lisa conceived this child naturally, it would have a 25% chance of developing the condition also.

If I was asked why I wanted to study medicine a year ago I would have provided a fairly satisfactory answer but if I’m asked why I want to study medicine - or continue studying – now I’m positive that I can provide the best answer possible due to the fact that I have actually studied and engaged in Medicine the whole past year.