DESCRIBE AN OBSTACLE YOU'VE OVERCOME AND HOW IT HAS DEFINED YOU - Personal Statement Example

Your full full August 14, A Personal Experience During the last year of my graduation, I planned to do internship in some health care centre or hospital. I got the opportunity to work as a physician assistant at Heather Health Care centre. My responsibility as a physician assistant was to help the physician in preventing and treating different kinds of human illnesses and diseases. One day, the physician had to go to his home early on an urgent call from his wife. I was left alone in the centre to deal with the patients.

I was feeling very nervous as I was new at the centre and had no experience of providing health care to the patients without the help of the physician. Meanwhile, a 35-year old woman came to the centre with a 5-year old child. The woman was very upset because her child was crying due to a muscle strain. She needed urgent help from me but I had no idea how to deal with such problems. At first, I decided to ask the woman to wait for the physician for an hour. But looking at the condition of her child, I decided to take the challenge and provide treatment to the child by myself.

So I recalled the lectures which my professor gave me in the class regarding treatment of muscle strains. I started the treatment by applying ice 5 to 6 times on the child’s affected muscle to reduce the swelling and pain. After I was done with applying ice, I did gentle stretching of the child’s affected muscle. The treatment really worked as the child stopped crying and started walking easily. My physician appreciated my performance when I told him in detail about the incident. This experience played a great role in developing my interest in becoming a professional physician after earning a high-level degree in the field of medical science.

This experience also helped me gain a lot of confidence and I started working with more dedication and enthusiasm at the health care centre.Works CitedNot required for personal experiences.