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Medical Residency Orthopedic, Pediatric Surgery

The crowning joy of my life so far has been helping people to walk, or to walk again. I find the experience of assisting the children to be particularly exhilarating. After years of being told that she would only be able to walk with crutches if she didn't use a wheelchair, a 10-year-old patient with cerebral palsy ran for the first time in her life. I met her on one of my first days in the Pediatric Orthopaedic clinic. Less than two months after surgery, this 10-year-old girl was given an entirely new life. She looked up at me with a massive smile on her face. Orthopedics was the specialty I had been looking for.

The first two years of medical school introduced me to countless specialties that I could imagine myself entering into. I had a taste of several things through volunteering, work, and research, but I needed more “hands-on” experience. During this time, I began working nights and weekends for State Organ/Tissue Procurement as a tissue procurement technician. We would remove from tissue donors everything from long bones, ribs, and the iliac crest to lower limb veins, tendons, and even the heart en bloc for valves. It was the perfect job for a medical student. I could learn sterile techniques, use of surgical instruments, and gain actual surgical experience without fearing inflicting further injury to the patient. I loved the fast pace and feel of surgery. Then, during my first 3rd-year rotation, I tore my ACL playing football and underwent autograft replacement one week before starting my surgical process. Standing on a swollen leg all day and icing it all night proved taxing and made me question my love for the OR. I enjoyed the clinic during most of my rotations, but it also proved taxing without various procedures.

On the first day of 4th year in Pediatric Orthopaedics, I felt this was what I had been looking for. First of all, I could empathize with many of the patients in the clinic, having broken multiple bones myself: everything from a both-bone forearm fracture skiing, to my nose in basketball practice, to a partial Achilles tendon tear and then my ACL playing football, not to mention all the hand, finger, and toe fractures. Second, it brought back all of the excitement I felt in my job as a Tissue Procurement Tech with the additional adrenaline rush of working on a dynamic, living person. I was thrilled to see the opposite end of the work I had done in tissue recovery. Witnessing firsthand the results of allograft tendons, bone blocks, and fracture sites packed with bone powder further increased the pride I had in working with donors. Third, I valued being able to have an immediate impact on the patient’s quality of life. I saw an 8-year-old boy in the ER who had been hit by a car and sustained multiple displaced fractures with nerve impingement at his right elbow. The tears of concern and fear in the eyes of his parents were only matched by tears of relief when the cast was removed, and a full range of motion was reestablished.

Through Orthopaedics, I could provide a good life for my family. Knowing from experience that I would be prepared to take care of them in the event of an accident would also bring peace to my soul. My family is the most critical aspect of my life and the highlight of my day is when I can give my wife and eight-week-old daughter a hug and a kiss. My time spent with them is precious to me. Also, a good physician should be well-rounded. I value my occasional free time to pursue interests such as: football, scuba diving, skiing, hiking , hunting, community volunteer work, church activities, and the occasional nap. With good time management, I feel I will be able to enjoy these aspects of my life occasionally.

I always hoped that I would be excited to go to work and that I would find people as passionate about their jobs as I was. I have yet to meet an Orthopaedic Surgeon who didn't have a smile while telling me about their job. I could not be more excited about what my future holds.

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