to become a doctor; however, I did not fully understand what it took to become a one. However, on the summer of June 2013, I began to understand what qualities and commitment a doctor should have to be considered a doctor. I recall the day very well; it started out as a peaceful day at my Grandparents parents’ house preparing a feast for about 30 family members. It was during the Holy month of Ramadan, when my grandpa decided to throw a feast for his six daughters and four sons, who each had about
I have always wanted to become a doctor. It 's been a great journey for me so far and I have been gratified by all the experiences I have encountered. When I was younger, I had a cousin who was diagnosed with Down 's Syndrome. I rattled the blue toy in front of my aunt’s son and watched as he sluggishly stared at my hand. The baby’s symptoms were hard to miss: weak muscles, flat head and nose bridge, short neck, slanted eyes, and abnormally low outer ears. My aunt was trying to cope with the situation
fault, if only I had kept myself away from her she wouldn’t be in this awful state she is in today. Did something bad happen to her while I left her to walk? Was I to blame? “What is going on with her? Is she going to be okay?” I nervously ask the doctor. But he just ignores me… Confused and afraid for my wife and our unborn baby’s safety, I break down I can’t hold my tears in. Nothing bad can happen to her she is carrying my baby… Our baby! The image of waiting for what seemed like hour 's remains
unsightly sores that lined her oral cavity. They had a tinge of yellow to them and appeared to be stained with blood. I was horrified by this sight and urgently asked my mother, “who can help this woman heal?” She looked at me and answered, “A messenger of God.” I asked, “Who is this messenger of God?” and she simply replied, “A doctor.” That was the first moment I remember wanting to pursue medicine, and especially dentistry. I began researching at the local school library and asked my biology teacher questions
Look back –During the summer of 2013, I travelled to India and had the privilege to volunteer at a Hospital where my aunt worked as a doctor. One of the most memorable experiences occurred with Jay, a fourteen – year- old boy who suffers from Schizophrenia. Jay was a long-term patient who had been in hospitalized for a year and a half. Schizophrenia is a neurodevelopment disorder that develops before birth. Usually, it does not become noticeable until late adolescence and so it was very unusual
convinced that some were as sane as she was. On the Outcome of her experiences, she wrote: What, excepting torture, would produce insanity quicker than this treatment? Here is a class of women sent to be cured. I would like the expert physicians who are condemning me for my action, which has proven their ability, to take a perfectly sane and healthy woman, shut her up and make her sit from 6 a.m. until 8 p.m. on straight-back benches, do not allow her to talk or move during these hours, give her
For the last 20 years and counting, I’ve concluded she was an angel: the doctor who found me in my hospital room bleeding to death, in the wee hours after my double mastectomy reconstruction surgery. She was the shadow standing beside my bed; who shook me and said, “You’re bleeding internally. You have to go back to surgery.” With the little strength I had left in me, I did all the shadow asked of me. Like in the operation room when I was too near death to be given anesthesia, I swallowed
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The Doctor was born on the planet Gallifrey. His race is that of a Time Lord. That is one of the only credible things we for certain know he has told about his life in the beginning. As Asher-Perrin describes in her blog, The Doctor was very consistent in telling his age in the years before what is called the Time War. After the war, claims about his age are unorganized and do not add up (2014). Steven Moffat, who is a writer and the show-runner of Doctor Who, states as quoted in Asher-Perrin’s blog