Personal Narrative: Earning A Doctor Of Pharmacy Degree

My experience growing up was very different from most children who grow up in the United States. I grew up in one house with eleven other people and that number increased every time someone would come to visit. Being part of this very large and close-knit family had its advantages, like taking me to the park if my parents were busy, but it also had its disadvantages. For example, if one of us got sick with the cold or the flu, it spread throughout the house like a wildfire. I watched those close to me get sick a countless number of times, and no matter what they did, the only thing that made them feel better was the medication.
Earning a Doctor of Pharmacy Degree will be a step forward in my goal of completing a critical care residency. Patients
There was an in-school field trip to go watch the “Mad Scientist” that had come to teach us. From elephant toothpaste to homemade rock candy, I was hooked. Although I showed interest in science as a child, the incident that heightened my interest in pharmacy happened when I was in fourth grade. I had been complaining about leg pain for days but my parents didn’t seem to believe me. Along with the pain not residing, the swelling had also increased, which finally concerned my parents to take me to the doctor. I was told to rest, and ice my leg for a few days and then come back if the pain and swelling did not go away. Two weeks after the pain started, I got an x-ray which confirmed a benign tumor. Most people know the word tumor does not indicate good news, even if it is benign. However, I was little and didn’t understand what benign tumor, but I did understand the word tumor, and I knew nothing good was associated with that. I was just told to take some Advil for the pain until tumor could be removed. Several weeks after the onset of the pain I had finally gotten my tumor removed. While I was being wheeled back to my room, I had woken up earlier than expected and had not experienced such pain in my life. It took the doctors several minutes to realize that my IV had been unhooked and that I was not receiving any of the medication that was supposed to help me with the
It was then that I realized that although doctors go through tremendous amounts of training to help save lives every day, there is only so much that they can do without the medicine. When a patient in the emergency room is going into anaphylactic shock, the doctors cannot do anything physically themselves to stop it, instead, they give the patient a dose of Epinephrine and albuterol to help relieve the symptoms. It was the medication that went into the body and corrected the problem. Doctors are trained to diagnose and fix the problem, but the medication is what does the job. Doctors can diagnose something as small as a sinus infection, but without the proper antibiotics, the infection will not go away. When I woke up from surgery, and even before the surgery, the only thing that helped me feel better, and temporarily relieve the symptoms was the actual drug