Physician Career Goals

I am a compilation of firsts and I have never been more proud of this fact than I am now. To begin, I am the first of my immediate family to attend and graduate from a four year university. Both of my parents graduated from high school and then joined the United States Navy afterwards. While both gained a tremendous amount of knowledge throughout their career in the military and in life, neither had pursued a college education. My mother was the closest of the two. She was planning on attending a university, but unfortunately she became pregnant with my brother at the young age of eighteen, which prevented her from going to school. She was forced to enter the workforce to provide for my brother, and over time she gave up on going to college as she gave birth to three more children. It was this missed opportunity that made my mother want her children to do better than she did and what inspired me to want to do better. While I am not an only child, I am the only one of my siblings to attend a four year university directly after graduating from high school. Furthermore, not only did I attend and graduate from my university, …show more content…
As a scribe, I have been able to observe astounding physicians providing quality patient care on a daily basis. Through my observations, I have come to understand that as a doctor you are given the rare privilege to share in your patient’s best, worst, and most private moments. I hope to someday have the honor of becoming a physician to care for patients in these moments with the intent of improving my patient’s quality of life as well as preserving their physical and mental well-being. By becoming an osteopathic doctor, I will be given the proper medical education that will ensure my patients are evaluated and treated the way they should be, which is as a human being and not as a list of symptoms or