Why I Want To Be A Doctor

Personal Essay

Since I have memory I have always like science. I remember my mom used to collect science books from the library about biology, chemistry and ecology. I remember I used to read those books and I was fascinated about them. Since then, I always told to myself that my life was going to be dedicated to science. But that feeling wasn’t fully fulfilled until one night, my mom came from work with a human anatomy book. I remember I read human anatomy a lot since then. Those feelings made me think about studying medicine and human sciences. I just love it. I like to give people a “diagnosis” even though I don’t know a lot about medicine, but in my future I would like to become someone that could help people in such a great field, a doctor of medicine.

I consider myself as a perseverant person, I like to get what I want to get. I am responsible and I like to study. I also love life and I respect it. I think that medicine is a perfect field to demonstrate my skills. Skills that I have learned in my life and that could be useful to mankind one day. I know that it is a hard career and that it takes a long time to finally accomplish it successfully, but I am disposed to prove that I can do it, and that I will spent every time that is necessary to reach my goals in life.

But the other side of the story of why I want to be a doctor is more of a terrifying experience. About 1 year ago, my mother had an ectopic pregnancy. As a result, she had a spontaneous abortion. It was a really tough times for me and for my family, but that was not the worst. My mom was diagnosed with uterine cancer after a couple of months. In this situation, my family, who did not speak any English at that time, recurred to me, who was the only one that barely knew how to speak.

I felt overwhelmed, not because I was the “translator”, but because of the terrible things that could have happened to my mom. Every time I went to the doctor with her, I prepared myself psychologically, because sometimes the words that I had to say to my own mother were too hard to say. Even those words that I had to listen, those words that said to me that my mom could have died were horrible. My mom eventually got better from chemotherapy and other drugs the doctor prescribed for her.

This situation made me realize how awful illness can affect your beloved ones, so I promised to myself that I would help others to best of my capabilities, and that is another reason of why I want to be a doctor. I would like to be able to help others in situations that are hard, that are affecting and threating his or her life, and that are hurting them emotionally. My decision about studying medicine is what my experiences had led me to. I want to help others, and that’s why I would like to be a doctor.

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