From Medicine to Machines: Discovering My Path in Biomedical Feild
As I began to ask myself questions about what to study and what genuinely caught my interest, I was lost in a sea of possibilities. I could, for example, study for a degree in medicine. I could work as a doctor, helping to treat and operate on patients, and positively impact patients’ lives. But then, I remembered something. Doctors, for example, give medications and perform surgery on patients, but what methods do and processes does the physician use to arrive at such decisions? What information, processes, and algorithms guide their decision-making? It was at this point that I found out about the hidden world—the world of biomedicine. It was a powerful yet simple answer, one that kicked off my interest in the world. I began my research and myself in the following months to look into potential options such as biochemistry, biotechnology, and biomedical engineering. I found the highly innovative nature of the fields that integrate science, technology and health to boost development of ...