MED SCHOOL TO ME

   As my six years in secondary school was gradually coming to an end, the question of your future occupation kept flying around and anytime I was asked, I would always say that I wanted to be a pediatrician. I graduated but I didn’t get admitted into a university after that. I went for an A-level program before I finally got into med school.

  I have always heard people say “med school is hard and stressful” but I always said confidently that other people did it so I can do it. School had already resumed before I did and my course mates were already taught what I was about to learn so I had to put in the extra work to catch up. The first lecture I had was histology lecture and cell was taught. I mean I’ve been taught cell before so I thought cell would be easy to learn. Well it was, until I realized there was more to the cell division than I knew. I got to my hostel after the day’s lectures and it finally sunk in, I was in the ever so talked about med school and there would be a lot of expectations to be met by me.

  As someone who is not a really fast reader, my struggle was and still is reading up the previous things taught as well as the present things knowing fully well that I need to read everything over and over again in just little time. Sometimes, I sit in a class and struggle to understand the things being taught but eventually realize how interesting it is when I read and understand them.

  I find med school interesting, I’ve learnt so much about the human body and the unimaginable diseases there are. there is so much to be amazed about and I finally realized what choosing to study Medicine and Surgery is.

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  Choosing to become a doctor is choosing to be at the middle of a straight road with two opposite ends.  One end is the patient’s life and the other end is the grave then there is you who determines whether the patient goes to the grave or not. It is like working on a bridge and as a doctor, you either build the bridge or break it. Building bridges is always for a good cause but not in this case, we need to break the bridge thereby stopping the passage of the patient’s life into the grave. The patient looks to you for answers with vulnerable eyes wishing and hoping for positive news from you. The patient tells you “Doctor, I don’t want to die” and you have to try to stop this death that the patient fears.

  So when people are asked why they want to become doctors and they say “to save lives”, I often wonder if they really understand that these lives must be saved no matter what. I have understood why the pressure is there and I believe I really want to save lives and these lives must be saved.