Personal Essay: My Experience As A Biomedical Engineer

It is said that the life never steps up until it has faced the most difficult challenge. My life went through the same. When I was young, less strong enough to overcome the obstacles, one of my brothers had TB. It was an emergency so everybody rushed to take him to hospital. I was looking at everyone’s terrified faces standing at the corner and I didn’t even know why they were so much terrified. I didn’t know what was going on but I could hear everybody wailing and quailing utterly. My brother’s parents had 3 sleepless nights until they were told their son was out of danger. Meanwhile, I got to know that my brother had Pulmonary TB and TB, called as Tuberculosis, may lead to death in extreme cases. After a lot of efforts, we got an opportunity to visit him in the ICU. This was the very first time that I got to see the medical devices. I was so impressed to know that a Ventilator which is an artificial device is

Furthermore, I came to know that biomedical engineers are responsible for the design and development of medical devices like ventilators. This was the moment I felt that Biomedical Engineering is the thing for me. I got desperate to study in details about other medical devices that existed so far. In order to quench my thirst of studying about such medical devices, I studied Biomedical Engineering in my bachelor.

My interest towards Biomedical Engineering is not solely guided by my brother’s condition, but is also fortified by the extraordinary inventions that took place after I came to know what exactly medical devices were. I like the way the medical devices aid in improving people’s health. During my bachelor, I attended an international conference on Medical Materials, Devices and Regenerative Medicine conducted in Nepal and got a chance to have face-to-face interaction with most revered personals of this field such as Prof. Dr. Buddy D