Journal 31

My job shadowing experience was nothing like I would of thought it would be. I would always go with my dad to his work because he also does cardiology also and it was nothing like what I was shown on Wednesday. All I really did was watch a doctor do an echo scan on one patient and that is about it. After I watched that, they took me back to a room where we watched the film on the echo scan. All of this was basically all I did throughout the whole thing. What I would of liked is maybe me going to watch a person getting worked on by cardiologists. I remember because my dad had done a lot of things in the surgical room and I was there to watch a lot of the times and it was really cool. Instead, this time I sat in front of a computer and saw the kidneys and the heart which was pretty cool, but I would of liked to see something other than just a video on the computer. Other than that, the food was good. The guy I was working with was really nice and he taught me a lot on the echo scan. He knew my dad which probably helped him talk to me in a more "doctor" way. He was naming off all these things and I really did learn a lot from him. I would still like to go somewhere in the medical field and it is just not because of my dad. Doctors do make a lot of money and it is something that I would think I would be good at. I am good at the science classes and math classes that we have here and I am excited to see where I will end up in ten years. The job shadowing experience for me was not the best thing in the world, but it did show me a lot about the heart and the organs inside a persons body. It was not the best thing in the world, in terms of exciting, but it did teach me a lot.