Cardiology Personal Statement

Scalpels of all sizes gleamed in the white LED light overhead; the rhythmic beeping of the patient’s heart monitor echoed off the walls of the operating room as a grimly figure stalked toward the table. The word surgeon is often associated with the thought of someone who loves to cut people open. But to me, the word surgeon has the same meaning as the word mechanic; surgeons are mechanics of the human body. November 15, 2014, was the day the word medicine had given me a new goal in life. Although nursing is precise and neurology is challenging, as an aspiring pre-med student I have dedicated my life to learning the intricacies of cardiology. Since my sophomore year in high school I had researched nonstop on what type of medical career I had wanted. My first interest landed in the nursing field, it had intrigued me with the memorable relationships that were always made between patients and a nurse. In my mind, a nurse was an individual who advocated the needs of the patient, never neglected the patient, instead picked up habits that accommodated every individual patient to make their stay more comfortable and less painful. Besides the empathetic side of nursing, I admired nurses for the

Neurology is divided into two groups; the known and the unknown. In the known category, everything is has a structure, a formation, a composition. The reason neurology caught my eye wasn’t because of the known, but instead because of the unknown. The mystery of the unknown compelled me, gripped my curiosity and pulled me towards into the depths of mystery. This mystery reflected my understanding of self-identity as a junior in high school; I did not know who I was or who I was meant to be. As I took a stroll in finding my self-identity, that made me realize the amount of stress that would accumulate in having to receive and contain the information of the things