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My interest in the medical field stemmed from my youth. I was introduced to hospitals starting at a young age. Neither of my parents where doctors, and I really did not know many people in health care at all, but still, I was becoming familiar with the health care scene through the eyes of a patient.
It wasn’t illness or disease that kept me coming to the hospitals, but the constant need to be repaired. My activities ranged far and wide, but one thing each had in common was an element of danger. Just the fact that I was putting some risk into what I was doing often made it that much more exciting. Whether it was a snowboard or a wakeboard, a bicycle or a motorcycle, I was always looking to push the limits. Although I had a lot of fun, it came with a price, and after a total of six broken bones, three concussions and one major surgery, I started getting interested in how the human body is repaired.
Since then I have extended that curiosity to the University classrooms and the hospital, to both study the pre-med courses and work in the field of surgery. My experiences have led me to understand a little better the needs of the practitioner and the patient. Each one needs the other, and sometimes the thing that connects the two the most are the tools and devices that are needed for surgery, therapies, and rehabilitation uses. These tools either encourage or intimidate the patient, they either help or hinder the doctor, and if designed correctly can bring the most desired results in healing harmony.
No medical device has ever been created that is a healing agent on its own. Each one serves a specific role in only helping to facilitate the healing process. Healing tools are just guides, or structures that help bring the right parts in contact with the right parts. The body’s incredible healing properties are what really do the work of repair, the devices and therapies used in medicine are designed to best support that process. The better a person understands what the body needs to heal itself the better medical devices will be able to take part in the healing process.
It wasn’t illness or disease that kept me coming to the hospitals, but the constant need to be repaired. My activities ranged far and wide, but one thing each had in common was an element of danger. Just the fact that I was putting some risk into what I was doing often made it that much more exciting. Whether it was a snowboard or a wakeboard, a bicycle or a motorcycle, I was always looking to push the limits. Although I had a lot of fun, it came with a price, and after a total of six broken bones, three concussions and one major surgery, I started getting interested in how the human body is repaired.
Since then I have extended that curiosity to the University classrooms and the hospital, to both study the pre-med courses and work in the field of surgery. My experiences have led me to understand a little better the needs of the practitioner and the patient. Each one needs the other, and sometimes the thing that connects the two the most are the tools and devices that are needed for surgery, therapies, and rehabilitation uses. These tools either encourage or intimidate the patient, they either help or hinder the doctor, and if designed correctly can bring the most desired results in healing harmony.
No medical device has ever been created that is a healing agent on its own. Each one serves a specific role in only helping to facilitate the healing process. Healing tools are just guides, or structures that help bring the right parts in contact with the right parts. The body’s incredible healing properties are what really do the work of repair, the devices and therapies used in medicine are designed to best support that process. The better a person understands what the body needs to heal itself the better medical devices will be able to take part in the healing process.