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Personal Essay: A Career In Medicine

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‘Are you kidding me?! You can’t be a doctor! Look at you. You are so tiny!
Imagine your first day as an intern in a reputed hospital. You were all set to conquer the world with your newly acquired knowledge and empathetic sentiments to eradicate all sorrows from the lives of your patients. However, when you try to take the history of your very first patient as a professional, this is what she declared. Baam! Welcome back to the planet Earth! Although I may look a little younger than I should, my commitment to the profession is as deeply-rooted as my sense of identity.
Ever since I gained consciousness of black and white, I was fortunate enough to recognize my interest with the delicacy of the neural circuits in a human body. Hence, neurology has always been my first choice in medicine. Even if you were to wake me up from deep sleep and ask me a career choice, I would blurt out ‘Neurology’ without a second thought.
Initially, this fascination with neural sciences was rather whimsical and was based on mere mysterious convolutions of gyri and sulci. Nonetheless, as I grew up, my passion for it got intrinsically linked with reason. Brain is what …show more content…

In order to explore that philanthropic side, I volunteered for mentally-challenged children when I was in school. ‘Patients are your books, you just don’t read them, you pay attention to every single detail’, one of my mentor mentioned these lines during his session. His words have always been resonated with my early experience with the specially-abled and have helped me recognize their challenges. Just by closely following their actions and trying to understand their sufferings, I have learnt to establish a bond with them. Similarly, a careful history and thorough examination could do wonders for you in understanding patient-care and reaching timely

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