{"id":87744,"date":"2022-09-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nursingstudybay.com\/2022\/09\/11\/why-i-will-never-be-a-doctor\/"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:00:00","slug":"why-i-will-never-be-a-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studyproessays.com\/help\/why-i-will-never-be-a-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Will Never Be A Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p> Why I Will Never Be a Doctor<\/p>\n<p>by Z. O., New City, NY<\/p>\n<p>If there is such a phenomenon as reincarnation, I undoubtedly would have been a medic in some bloody war in a past life. Each day I would have encountered amputated limbs, innards strewn across the battleground and infected wounds. Otherwise, how can I explain my mortal fear of blood? Witnessing the horror of bloody pasts must have chemically altered my mind and body; today, when I hear people talking about blood, I faint.<\/p>\n<p>My first fainting incident interrupted my cousin David\u2019s bar-mitzvah. As the ark was opening, my mom pointed to Uncle Jeff and whispered, \u201cHe\u2019s a doctor who works with hemophiliacs.\u201d \u201cWhat\u2019s a hemophiliac?\u201d I asked. \u201cSomeone who can\u2019t stop bleeding,\u201d she replied bluntly. Suddenly my stomach disappeared, my head felt like Hurricane Georges and I fell back into my seat. Three of my relatives jumped over rows of chairs to revive me.<\/p>\n<p> My relatives now come to family events with smelling salts, stretchers and ice packs, both as ridicule and precaution.<\/p>\n<p>I used to think this was a petty fear. But after I fainted when reading a passage about arteries during the SSATs, I realized it\u2019s a full-blown phobia. When I returned home after the test, I told my father I didn\u2019t finish. He said, \u201cZach, don\u2019t worry. Lots of kids don\u2019t answer all the questions.\u201d And I replied, \u201cNo, Dad, I fainted in the middle and had to come home early.\u201d He laughed and asked, \u201cYou\u2019re kidding, right?\u201d The embarrassment and shame I felt at that moment was somewhere between eating alone in the lunch room and getting your pants pulled down at recess.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not as if I am acquiescing to this phobia. I have seriously tried to eliminate it. One time, when the doctor was giving me a shot, I clutched my mom\u2019s hand and thought about Disneyland. If the warmth of a mother\u2019s hand, coupled with visions of Goofy can\u2019t repress fear, nothing can. But, as the doctor placed the needle in my arm, my face turned as white as the first tissue pulled from a box. When it comes to blood, I will always be a wimp.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, I do not feel pressure to be the proverbial macho man. I have no qualms accepting help during one of my attacks. One time, during a gory part of a movie, my girlfriend left the theater to bring me soda because I felt faint. Now, she feels an instinctual urge to cover my eyes during every gory scene we watch.<\/p>\n<p>Seven years of embarrassment, weakness and debilitating fear have strengthened me to the point where I can listen to a brief conversation about blood without feeling faint. I have calculated that at this rate I will stop fearing blood on the 40th birthday of my next lifetime. The party will be held at Disneyland. I\u2019ll be the guy clutching an older woman\u2019s hand. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I Will Never Be a Doctor by Z. 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