Tag: pre-med

  • Writing a Christian Personal Statement: Part 3

    Writing a Christian Personal Statement: Part 3

    In today’s culture, there is no greater sin than to be a phony.  No offense to the lawyers out there, but Holden Caulfield said it well: “Lawyers are alright, I guess — but it doesn’t appeal to me”, I said. “I mean they’re alright if they go around saving innocent guys’ lives all the time,…

  • Writing a Christian Personal Statement: Part 2

    My essay for admission to medical school was brutally honest.  I talked about my low GPA, my relationship with my parents, my obsession with the problem of suffering, quotes from my personal journal, and how it was all driven by a radical faith in Jesus Christ (and images in my head of suffering children).  It…

  • In Its Time

    [The third post in a series on becoming a Christian physician, originally written for the ESN blog. Earlier posts are Do You Want to Be a Doctor? and Helping People Is Not Enough]. After working 24 hours on call in the pediatric ICU, I was exhausted. I wanted to sleep, but friends had recently been reminding me of…

  • Helping People Is Not Enough

    [This is the second post in a series on becoming a Christian physician, originally written for the ESN blog. The series began with Do You Want to Be a Doctor?] “Why do you want to work in healthcare?” “I want to help people.” This dialogue is the most common conversation people will have about a…

  • Do You Want to Be a Doctor?

    Do You Want to Be a Doctor?

    “I want to be a doctor.  How do I do it?” As a teenager, I was very shy and very awkward.  Talking to strangers was a painful and anxiety-laden task, and I didn’t like to talk to strangers any longer than necessary.  So when a pediatrician asked me, at a routine office visit, if I…