MY dream...
Ok, I just wanted to post my informative essay I passed in ENGLONE last term... You guys don't have to read it, I just want to post "something" in my blog.. I don't want to let it just rot...Medico-Legal: A Dream Waiting To Be Fulfilled
Medico-legal is a fusion of two extremely opposing professions, law and medicine. It requires you to take-up medicine and after which, law. Impossible as it may seem, some have managed to become one. Being a medico-legal doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll be working as a doctor and a lawyer at the same time. Instead, you’ll serve as a lawyer for doctors using your background on Medicine.
Being a medico-legal gives you the opportunity to serve the people: As a lawyer, you could
protect their rights and bring justice among them. As a doctor, you could keep people in good health by treating their diseases, and prescribing the necessary medicine. In short, having medico-legal as a profession gives you the chance to save people’s lives and change their future.
Aside from the fulfillment that comes with the profession, it also brings a bright future to you and your family. As of now, there are only 5 medico-legal practitioners in the country and you wouldn’t have to worry about any competition. In addition to this, the excellence of your background in Medicine would give you a big chance of winning lawsuits, which most of the time involves doctors. And in effect, doctors would always prefer you to handle cases filed against them. The more cases you handle, the greater your income would be. Eventually, you will be able to support your family and providing your kids a good school to study at, and giving all the things they need wouldn’t give you problems.
Although medico-legal gives you a promising future, becoming and being one is not a joke. It involves a very long process that includes more than 15 years of training. The process starts by taking-up a pre-med course that usually takes 3 to 4 years. Your choice of pre-med course depends on what your university offers. After graduation, you should then take the National Medical Admission Test (NMAT), which will determine if you have acquired all the knowledge necessary before taking up medicine. If you pass the test, you may start studying medicine, which could take 4 to 5 years. After graduating from Medicine, you’ll have to take another test, the physician licensure examination, which will determine if you have the knowledge and skills of a doctor and be issued a license to practice. If you pass the exam, you can then start your specialization in law, which will take another 4 to 5 years. After finishing the course, you will again take another examination which is called the bar exams. It will determine if you have the skills and knowledge of a good lawyer and will give you the right to practice law. Having all these accomplished, you are officially a Medico-legal.
Remember that you have to do well in your NMAT test to be admitted in a good university like De La Salle, UST and UP which have 50%, 65% and 98% required NMAT grades, respectively. And you should even do better in your Board and Bar Examinations because both have less than 50% chance of passing. As you see time is not the only element to consider in pursuing medico-legal but also the difficulty added by the different examinations you have to pass.
In pursuing this profession you must possess different values because it is expected that you’ll be sacrificing a lot of things. Patience, perseverance, and determination are the three most important values you’ll need, especially when you start to feel the lack of time for yourself.
One factor which will be greatly affected is your social life. Several exams are always lined up and you’ll be having a very hectic schedule. You’ll no longer find time to meet your friends or have dates with your girlfriend. Even your relationship with your family gets affected. You’ll always need to study, and study, and study as if it seems like it will never end. Actually, it will even get worse until you don’t find time to wash your face and even brush your teeth! With this kind of life, you’ll surely burn out in the middle of the process and just want to quit.
The support of the family is not only important when you feel like giving up but is very important in the entire process. They’ll provide all the things you need including the money to pay for the expenses such as tuition fees, books, handouts, food, transportation, lodging, and others.
When you finally become a medico-legal, nothing much would change. You still wouldn’t have enough time for yourself, because you have to stay late at night to prepare for court. Of course, the lawsuits you handle will not always win, it will still depend if your client is guilty or not. But the bad part in losing is that your clients and their families could blame you and make you feel that you’re the reason why someone from their family will be spending the next years of his or her life in prison. But if you are that eager to win all your cases, it may involve destroying your own moral specifically if your client is not innocent. In defending them, you will be forced to lie and your profession could turn out sinful.
As you see, what you experience in the process of becoming a medico-legal wouldn’t differ much from what your life would be as a medico-legal. It will even mark the beginning of bigger challenges to come in your life, which could even include risking your own life. The life of a medico-legal is very similar to that of a lawyer. You could receive death threats from persons you’ve put into jail or lawyers you’ve lately been against at or anybody that you’ve posed a threat on. Moreover, you and your family could even be a target for kidnapping, robbery, rape and other crimes not only because you have put somebody in prison, but also because of your wealth and popularity that have pulled so much attention of other people on you.
At the beginning I didn’t plan to write my personal opinion about being a medico-legal, but my passion and eagerness to become one urged me to do so. Because for me, despite all the challenges that comes with this profession, I still would want to be a medico-legal.
One reason why I want to be a medico-legal is because it challenges me. Since I was a child I wanted to prove that I’m different from others, because I know I can do things others cannot, and I can survive any challenge that comes to my life. But my life has been so well that nothing has been big enough to reach my limits, and to explore it makes me so eager to pursue this profession. Moreover, I want to prove that I have the ability and the brain to handle one of the hardest professions to pursue.
I know that if I’d be able to achieve this goal, I’ll bring pride and respect to my family because as of now, we have a lot doctors and lawyers and to have another one of them would be too ordinary. That’s why I want to be a medico-legal, to be the first with both professions.
As I’ve said earlier, this profession will assure a bright future for my family and myself. The status of our economy doesn’t favor in taking up courses like medico-legal that are time-consuming and too expensive. And then again, there’s less competition in this profession and the chances of becoming successful would be high.
There’s no greater reason why I want to be a medico-legal other than it is my dream since I was a child. This has made me so eager and patient in pursuing it that the time and amount of money involved does not matter anymore. Since I was a child I’ve always wanted to give service to the people without asking anything in return. Just to see them smiling and thankful because I’ve been able to help them in some way is priceless. And when that happens, I will feel complete, that’s why I’ll surely pursue this profession. I know that when I achieve this dream, I’ll feel the contentment and fulfillment in my life.
Dreams aren’t just statements, they are goals. Fulfilling your dreams is fulfilling life. Dreaming to be a medico-legal doesn’t stop there. You must fulfill what you think is impossible or the least possible thing that you think could happen to your life. It is not there just to be written in slam books or to be told to your friends, relatives or children. It is there to be fulfilled.
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posted by Don @ 10:33 PM
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