Good health improves the quality of life of people, health is a significant ingredient of life and a nation of sick people cannot carry out their tasks and responsibilities. I am the first of five children in a family from the western part of Nigeria. Anyone familiar with the culture would attest to the responsibility the firstborn wields from birth. I grew up with the “Superwoman” complex, I was determined to change the world and I spent minutes to hours planning how I was going to make it happen. I wanted to help people live better and more comfortable lives. I read and fell in love with “Gifted hands” by Dr. Ben Carson, the way he touched lives by giving one person the hope of living again appealed to me greatly and this led to me pursuing a career in medicine. My exposure to clinical medicine started in my fourth year of medical school and I began to realize the shortcomings in the management of healthcare, policies that guided the health care system and how much effect it had on the health of the people and their chances of survival. I then concluded that as a doctor I could go beyond my consulting room of changing one life at a time to effecting change to many more at once if I had the opportunity to manage healthcare on any level.
Good
health
improves
the quality of life of
people
,
health
is a significant ingredient of life and a nation of sick
people
cannot carry out their tasks and responsibilities. I am the
first
of five children in a family from the western part of Nigeria. Anyone familiar with the culture would attest to the responsibility the firstborn wields from birth. I grew up with the “Superwoman” complex, I
was determined
to
change
the world and I spent minutes to hours planning how I was going to
make
it happen. I wanted to
help
people
live
better and more comfortable
lives
.
I
read and fell in
love
with “Gifted hands” by Dr. Ben Carson, the way he touched
lives
by giving one person the hope of living again appealed to me
greatly
and this led to me pursuing a career in medicine. My exposure to clinical medicine
started
in my fourth year of medical school and I began to realize the shortcomings in the management of healthcare, policies that guided the
health
care system and how much effect it had on the
health
of the
people
and their chances of survival. I then concluded that as a doctor I could go beyond my consulting room of changing one life at a time to effecting
change
to
many
more at once if I had the opportunity to manage healthcare on any level.