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I Should Go Back For Med School

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"You should go back to med school" is a statement I 've been hearing for years. Deciding to apply is not a decision i have taken lightly. This isn’t a choice that came about from a burning desire to be a Doctor since a young age, or some tragic life changing event. This has been a decision based on professional interactions, research and personal experiences that keep pointing me in the same direction. RN school, my job as hospital tech, and my current job in the ED have given me great incite to the world of medicine. Before stepping into this world, i was a waiter and it was at that job i realized how important short interactions with people can be. It 's the smaller gestures and the way you present your self that can make the experience that much better for the customer. As i transferred my career to the bedside, i began to see how important taking your time, speaking calmly, allowing time for the patient to take in what you just said, and sometimes just listening is. I 've witnessed some of the most brilliant minds in medicine have awkward, rude, empty and short interactions with people. I don 't think this was done out of malice or discontent but more a lack of social knowledge and what it means to truly encompass the multifaceted skill it is to "treat the patient." No patient is going to remember what antibiotic you gave, but they are going to remember you sitting at the bedside and explaining to them why it is important to subject their sick grandmother to more

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