Personal Narrative Essay: Why I Want To Be A Doctor

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MY BELIEVES
I believe that since birth we have a destiny and a destination. Sometimes even before we can rationalize our thoughts, our heart already knows what we want. At the end, our feelings will push us one step closer to accomplishing our goals. My life has been undoubtedly a mirror of my thoughts.
WHY A DOCTOR
As a frequently ill child, I spent most of my childhood visiting doctors and being torture by needless and medicines. Not being satisfied, my playful curiosity led me to burn the soil of my foot. Even though my recovery was long, painful and tearful, the kindness and compassion of my doctor ignited my bond to medicine. My/The wide exposure to doctors reinforced my will to be one. WHY INTERNAL MEDICINE
During medical school and …show more content…

I wanted to be an Internist, and it was not a memorable case that made me decide, it was every single case and their protagonists -the patients. Patients inspired me to be a clinician, they pushed my curiosity further and the extra mile to read, to learn, to serve, to become better and to keep asking and learning again. My patients were my teachers and my classroom (without underestimating my mentors); they taught me that many diagnoses could be repetitive, but patients were not. Each one was a new story and a different puzzle that required effort, time and patience to understand. At the end, I learned to think about patients as a whole and work on them as a …show more content…

My dream finally started to materialize; I gained entrance to an Internal Medicine Program. Unfortunately, after six months the panorama changed and became unclear. An imminent change in the health care regulations in Ecuador brought a massive resignation of specialists and our health system started to decline. The lack of structure and academy was evident, and I was facing the uncertainty of the future. It was time to decide whether to continue and self-educate or to evaluate other options that offered me a stronger professional formation. A couple of weeks later, the final decision was made; I couldn 't bolster the thought of not doing anything on this matter, the patients couldn 't pay the deadly consequences of a broken system. I was resolved to get the best possible training to guarantee a superior quality of care to my patients and to my country

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