There was a point in my medical career when I had to decide whether I wanted to be a part of the ready-made healthcare system, or did I want to tweak the system according to research for the benefit of both patient and the health professional? The choice of going with the latter was a fairly easy and obvious one to make.
I am proud to state that I have had a very versatile and a very glistening career in healthcare despite being a part of it for a very short time. I have been part of both the mainstream clinical side of it, in addition to being a part of it on a larger scale, that is public health.
I first started my involvement in clinical medicine in my final year of my undergraduate studies. During my rotations in almost every ward, I contributed to the best of my abilities. My duties at the time were mainly restricted to monitoring patients and providing my supervisors with more data and myself with more to learn at the same time. But this is not the only thing I did throughout the final year.
I was part of the Poor Patients Welfare Organization. As a proud member of that exceptional organization of Ayub Medical College, we organized events to raise funds for awareness campaigns, and for patients who could not afford to pay for their expensive treatments. We would also, from time to time, set medical camps in the peripheries of the province, where we would provide poor patients with healthcare and medicines in their own respective remote villages.
After my graduation from Ayub Medical College, I started working as an internee at the affiliated hospital. The internship spanned over one year, three months each in four units. I started with the Medical A Unit, where my work mostly involved monitoring the patients admitted, provide emergency treatments, taking long and detailed histories, and giving presentations on various topics. I also had the experience of working with my distinguished supervisors in the outpatient