Inspiration

With the career presentations that just came up, I had decided to focus my attention on a specific kind of doctor and I had chosen cardiology.  When analyzing rhetoric, I found a quote from a doctor that really struck me.  It was a quote from a cardiology medical director, Douglas Pearce, "I wanted to make a difference in someone's life.  Although I like everything about medicine and it was difficult to decide, I knew I wanted to do something in critical care medicine...I didn't want to just do procedures and not see the patient again.  I wanted to be able to sit on the edge of the bed and hold a patient's hand and make a difference in their life".  Connecting with the patients and truly understanding them in order to help them is what I want.  It's exactly as he said, sitting with the patients and being the doctor that they trust; not the doctor that they are grudging to see.  To be able to be the doctor that they see more of as a friend rather than a doctor.  Even though becoming a doctor - especially a doctor who specializes in a certain field - is very rigorous, the knowledge that you have affected someone so greatly has to be absolutely fulfilling.  I still have to choose a field to specialize in...but now I think I have narrowed it to one where interaction with the patients is a major part of it.  There are so many options in life; I just hope I choose the correct ones.