Hospital doors and meds aren't unfamiliar to a girl like me. I am always surrounded and influenced by anyone or anything that deals with the medical field. Ever since I was young I remember always waiting anxiously for my mother to get out of the surgery room. I was taught to give her medicine because of her kidney problems she had all her life. I was taught paitence and carefulness when my mother's health problems got worst. When it came to giving out Tylenols, temperatures, and blankets I was the one to nurse who was sick in the household. I even helped my sister give birth in the delivery room at tripler and stayed over at the hospital for over a week to help her recover from an infection. Even as I get older I still learn more and I am influenced by the field. I proudly watch my brohter, a medic in the army to go to school to become a medical practicioner. I watched my sister who tried the profession of the medical field. I watch my relatives as they move to foreign countries like Dubai and Singapore to treat the ill and I start to meet people that are high ranks and are respected in the profession. Even though it may sound weird I feel that the medical field is my passion in life. When I grow up I would like to be a head registered nurse or a doctor's practicioner and when I am at a successful point I would like to travel to 3rd world countries and help impoverished familes with free medicare.
Dr. Elizaga, a doctor of internal medicine came from a humble home in the Philippines came to America by passing a difficult board exam, which led him to the practice of medicine in Baltimore and led him to his office in Hawaii. "As a doctor of hospitals and medicine I am the one to help cure patients and prescribe the right type of medicine for them. To become a doctor is no easy work. Its a long process of schooling: 4 years undergraduate, 4 years of med school, and 3-5 years of specialty training. There were times when I wanted to give up. Not getting to go out with friends and party, I was doing my homework during the weekends and plus the work was hard and fustrating. But it's worth it because you get the heart warming feeling when you know you helped a patient. It's the best and noble profession out there. Even if your not a doctor, the medical field is the best profession out there. What kind of profession gives you the power of saving or helping someone's life?". My brother Edward Reyes is a medic in the army and helps people in a immediate, "first responder" way. "I am a medic in the army rank of E-6. I am assigned to train people who are about to be deployed in Irag, Kuwait etc to be their own combat life saver. By means, if they are injured and there are no signs of help for them they can help and nurse there own selves till help is on the way. I also do their checkups to make sure there ready for war. I am also assigned to work at Queens and Tripler Hospital as a medical specialist. To get this job offer I had to take 3-6 months of EMT schooling and army training in Texas for a year. What I like about the medical field is that I get to work with many different fields of career oriented people. And the fact that I am making a person's life better and giving them a second chance at life makes me feel better about myself. Darwin, a doctor's practiconer travels to 3rd world countries like Taiwan and the Philippines to help nurse sick children and parents in rural areas. "I am like the doctor's manager but a nurses's boss. I am told what to do but advise the ones below me. Since my doctor works around certain countries I get to do the same and travel to places like the Philippines to help with sick people who cannot afford medicare. It's a wonderful and heartfelt expierence. The schooling was hard: 2 years of undergraduate, 2 years nursing program and another 2 years of specialty training but it's all worth it at the end.
I liked seeing all the perspectives of all the types of medical workers: Doctors, medics, and practiconers. They all had to go through the same struggle of being what they wanted but in a matter of different types of schooling or years. Some went to school for over 12 years and some went to school in a rush because of its qualification for the job. The medical field does have its "dissapointing" and "real world" side. There are a lot of pains, impatience, and struggles when your part of the medical field. "My kids didn't even want to be a doctor because of the stress they know I faced. Like thinking about a patient all the time or what is right for the person and hoping all goes well"- Dr. Elizaga. "Theres the ugly side too. Like cleaning up after a patient for example: a 300 pound patient. Or seeing a dead body, or ill and injured people coming back from Iraq. It hurts but you need to be strong and face it. It's the medical field.
But I think i'm ready for the pain, struggle, and schooling because the medical field is something I want to be part of. I want to be able to make a difference in someone's life, small or big. I feel that if its something you really want and you know you have the feeling and capability of doing it will go through.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Hospital doors and meds aren't unfamiliar to a girl like me. I am always surrounded and influenced by anyone or anything that deals with the medical field. Ever since I was young I remember always waiting anxiously for my mother to get out of the surgery room. I was taught to give her medicine because of her kidney problems she had all her life. I was taught paitence and carefulness when my mother's health problems got worst. When it came to giving out Tylenols, temperatures, and blankets I was the one to nurse who was sick in the household. I even helped my sister give birth in the delivery room at tripler and stayed over at the hospital for over a week to help her recover from an infection. Even as I get older I still learn more and I am influenced by the field. I proudly watch my brohter, a medic in the army to go to school to become a medical practicioner. I watched my sister who tried the profession of the medical field. I watch my relatives as they move to foreign countries like Dubai and Singapore to treat the ill and I start to meet people that are high ranks and are respected in the profession. Even though it may sound weird I feel that the medical field is my passion in life. When I grow up I would like to be a head registered nurse or a doctor's practicioner and when I am at a successful point I would like to travel to 3rd world countries and help impoverished familes with free medicare.
Dr. Elizaga, a doctor of internal medicine came from a humble home in the Philippines came to America by passing a difficult board exam, which led him to the practice of medicine in Baltimore and led him to his office in Hawaii. "As a doctor of hospitals and medicine I am the one to help cure patients and prescribe the right type of medicine for them. To become a doctor is no easy work. Its a long process of schooling: 4 years undergraduate, 4 years of med school, and 3-5 years of specialty training. There were times when I wanted to give up. Not getting to go out with friends and party, I was doing my homework during the weekends and plus the work was hard and fustrating. But it's worth it because you get the heart warming feeling when you know you helped a patient. It's the best and noble profession out there. Even if your not a doctor, the medical field is the best profession out there. What kind of profession gives you the power of saving or helping someone's life?". My brother Edward Reyes is a medic in the army and helps people in a immediate, "first responder" way. "I am a medic in the army rank of E-6. I am assigned to train people who are about to be deployed in Irag, Kuwait etc to be their own combat life saver. By means, if they are injured and there are no signs of help for them they can help and nurse there own selves till help is on the way. I also do their checkups to make sure there ready for war. I am also assigned to work at Queens and Tripler Hospital as a medical specialist. To get this job offer I had to take 3-6 months of EMT schooling and army training in Texas for a year. What I like about the medical field is that I get to work with many different fields of career oriented people. And the fact that I am making a person's life better and giving them a second chance at life makes me feel better about myself. Darwin, a doctor's practiconer travels to 3rd world countries like Taiwan and the Philippines to help nurse sick children and parents in rural areas. "I am like the doctor's manager but a nurses's boss. I am told what to do but advise the ones below me. Since my doctor works around certain countries I get to do the same and travel to places like the Philippines to help with sick people who cannot afford medicare. It's a wonderful and heartfelt expierence. The schooling was hard: 2 years of undergraduate, 2 years nursing program and another 2 years of specialty training but it's all worth it at the end.
I liked seeing all the perspectives of all the types of medical workers: Doctors, medics, and practiconers. They all had to go through the same struggle of being what they wanted but in a matter of different types of schooling or years. Some went to school for over 12 years and some went to school in a rush because of its qualification for the job. The medical field does have its "dissapointing" and "real world" side. There are a lot of pains, impatience, and struggles when your part of the medical field. "My kids didn't even want to be a doctor because of the stress they know I faced. Like thinking about a patient all the time or what is right for the person and hoping all goes well"- Dr. Elizaga. "Theres the ugly side too. Like cleaning up after a patient for example: a 300 pound patient. Or seeing a dead body, or ill and injured people coming back from Iraq. It hurts but you need to be strong and face it. It's the medical field.
But I think i'm ready for the pain, struggle, and schooling because the medical field is something I want to be part of. I want to be able to make a difference in someone's life, small or big. I feel that if its something you really want and you know you have the feeling and capability of doing it will go through.
Dr. Elizaga, a doctor of internal medicine came from a humble home in the Philippines came to America by passing a difficult board exam, which led him to the practice of medicine in Baltimore and led him to his office in Hawaii. "As a doctor of hospitals and medicine I am the one to help cure patients and prescribe the right type of medicine for them. To become a doctor is no easy work. Its a long process of schooling: 4 years undergraduate, 4 years of med school, and 3-5 years of specialty training. There were times when I wanted to give up. Not getting to go out with friends and party, I was doing my homework during the weekends and plus the work was hard and fustrating. But it's worth it because you get the heart warming feeling when you know you helped a patient. It's the best and noble profession out there. Even if your not a doctor, the medical field is the best profession out there. What kind of profession gives you the power of saving or helping someone's life?". My brother Edward Reyes is a medic in the army and helps people in a immediate, "first responder" way. "I am a medic in the army rank of E-6. I am assigned to train people who are about to be deployed in Irag, Kuwait etc to be their own combat life saver. By means, if they are injured and there are no signs of help for them they can help and nurse there own selves till help is on the way. I also do their checkups to make sure there ready for war. I am also assigned to work at Queens and Tripler Hospital as a medical specialist. To get this job offer I had to take 3-6 months of EMT schooling and army training in Texas for a year. What I like about the medical field is that I get to work with many different fields of career oriented people. And the fact that I am making a person's life better and giving them a second chance at life makes me feel better about myself. Darwin, a doctor's practiconer travels to 3rd world countries like Taiwan and the Philippines to help nurse sick children and parents in rural areas. "I am like the doctor's manager but a nurses's boss. I am told what to do but advise the ones below me. Since my doctor works around certain countries I get to do the same and travel to places like the Philippines to help with sick people who cannot afford medicare. It's a wonderful and heartfelt expierence. The schooling was hard: 2 years of undergraduate, 2 years nursing program and another 2 years of specialty training but it's all worth it at the end.
I liked seeing all the perspectives of all the types of medical workers: Doctors, medics, and practiconers. They all had to go through the same struggle of being what they wanted but in a matter of different types of schooling or years. Some went to school for over 12 years and some went to school in a rush because of its qualification for the job. The medical field does have its "dissapointing" and "real world" side. There are a lot of pains, impatience, and struggles when your part of the medical field. "My kids didn't even want to be a doctor because of the stress they know I faced. Like thinking about a patient all the time or what is right for the person and hoping all goes well"- Dr. Elizaga. "Theres the ugly side too. Like cleaning up after a patient for example: a 300 pound patient. Or seeing a dead body, or ill and injured people coming back from Iraq. It hurts but you need to be strong and face it. It's the medical field.
But I think i'm ready for the pain, struggle, and schooling because the medical field is something I want to be part of. I want to be able to make a difference in someone's life, small or big. I feel that if its something you really want and you know you have the feeling and capability of doing it will go through.
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