so ridiculously excited to start work at HCMC (Hennepin Cnty Mdcl Cntr). being in an ER makes me more consciously aware of my aliveness, and it shows in my interactions with people...it shows just in general ;). and i'm really really really looking forward to meeting people. just realized how deprived i've become in terms of person-person relationships. and HCMC is downtown, a fact that gives patient demographics an interesting twist :). i want to know people. i want to know the world. better yet, i want to be the world. i want to know the artists, the criminals, the potheads, the ascetics, the religious fanatics, the mystics, the shamans, the madmen, the rich, the poor, the black white blue yellow red purple and green, the choreographers, the construction workers, the architects, the...labels! goodness all these labels. well i want to know the people that are the labels, the people that aren't, and everything in between. mostly the in between. mostly cuz that's where most people fall. mostly.
whenever somebody asks me why i want to be a doctor, i invariably struggle to come up with a response that doesn't sound too much like the cliche one. however, after a few seconds of hemming and hawing, i finally have to say "i want to be a doctor because fixing things, aiding people, being useful; resonates soundly with my inner architecture." i've recently come to terms with this answer because i've realized that this should be the reason a person enters the medical profession. the only reason, that is. everything else is secondary.
so there. though the institutionalized/establishmentarian aspect of doctorhood still irks me. but...i think i can find my way around that. i won't elaborate.
whenever somebody asks me why i want to be a doctor, i invariably struggle to come up with a response that doesn't sound too much like the cliche one. however, after a few seconds of hemming and hawing, i finally have to say "i want to be a doctor because fixing things, aiding people, being useful; resonates soundly with my inner architecture." i've recently come to terms with this answer because i've realized that this should be the reason a person enters the medical profession. the only reason, that is. everything else is secondary.
so there. though the institutionalized/establishmentarian aspect of doctorhood still irks me. but...i think i can find my way around that. i won't elaborate.
posted by wynee at 7:57 AM
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but you could be a plumber and accomplish all that as well. that's why i could never use "helping people, etc" as my reason. there's so much else that does the same. reverend, garbage collector, etc...
yes. i realized this and of course have adjusted accordingly in my amcas essay. it reads along the lines of "helping people in a way that is meaningful to myself". of course, much further elaborated.
yeah, i never really managed to figure out how to overcome that particular hurdle. i wrote something to the effect of....i just simply could NOT be anything else. but they don't much care, i think. most ad comm members have been around long enough that they know 99% of the reasons people want to go to med school.
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