More About These Dr's Lifes...

It was amazing to to have heard from this wonderful people. I was so inspired and greatful I had an oppotunity to do this. I heard different stories from different Doctors and different ways in which they were inspired to become the Doctor they were today. Amazingly they all have a story to tell and they all differ in how they got to Medical School, and how they changed their minds from first choice of study to what they finally settled down as.They all have differnt mentors, and influences and how they went through med school. Some parent paid for them, some based on loans and scholarships were not left out. Wao! Although they all have to go through same process which is Medical school, but it wasnt the same way for all of them different environment entirely and different years were spent for different schools attended. Either because of ethnic background differences and oppotunities.

Some where influenced by their parent. Some changed their mind several times. Like ER Nurse Olalere Adeleye, Told me he was in the field of study because he had passion for the course and he wanted to help people around him. He said he realizes that it was something he could handle, and he derives joy from it. He said there's gratification in it, and its a steady job that gives comfort for a long time. He said he likes the flexibility of the job and of course the pay is good he can provide a comfortable life for his kids. It was intresting to here that he used to work in an office where he dint see himself like that for the rest of his life, and he said he dint fit the place of work and he decieded right away, cause he saw himself more in the medical field and he went to school for it.

Another Dr: Dr Ide Ebelechukwu said that, He didnt want to deal with family history and follow up works. He said he figured out that he's an energetic person, and ER fits his character. He said its all about patient comes in, he treats them and discharge them or send them to the floor if they need to be admitted. He said you tend to know more and you focused on acute care people only. He said it's diffent from the family practice or internal medicine Doctors deal with paper work and continious paper work. Er doctors base their treatment on what test to be done, order it and that's it. It's a fast process, and since he's energetic it fits him squarely.

Another Doctor, Dr Gbolahan Shokoya said, his dad made his choice for him. He said perspective is different cause of different ethnicity. He wanted to be an Architect, but his Dad changed that dream for him. He said after he had applied his dad went behind him and filled another application for him to go to med school cause he was smart. and they believed he should be a Doctor. He said however he's not regreting that decesion today. He said he had always liked chalenges and he makes the best out of it, that the volumes of big text books was not scary for him because he already loves reading and reading for a longer time too, so that made it easier and intresting to read the big books. He also said that,He wanted to be a Gyenechologist becase of the procedure and you seeing the outcome immediately and you being able to fix it right there. Other than the Neuro or infectious disease Doctors, they can't see result until after series of test, and so long to arrive at a result for the patient. He said You cant choose what you really want, because there are lots of people to compete with, who also want what you want. He did say that, being a Foreign Doctor, it was so different because for foreign doctors who want to come to America and do their residency, they had only 7'000 spot for them, and they were up to 100,000 applicants, so it's highly competative to get in for residency. So depending on how good you are, then you get what you want{The kind of Doctor you want} during Residency time. He also said he got admitted for Internal Medicine for his residency, and he started working in ER as an ER Doctor.

He said he got a satisfaction in it, also cause it was close to what he hhad initially loved to do. Whereby, You see the problem, you fix it right there, just as the gyneachologist he wanted to be. So because of the similarity in the '' I can see the result now effect'' between the Oby-Gynea he wanted to be before and the ER doctor that he is now, He changed and settled as an ER Doctor. Intresting stuffs innit? lol