Эссе: еще девочкой Лиза отвечала на телефонные звонки в приемной ее родителей, которые держали небольшую клинику. С раннего детства маленькая Лиза понимала, что помощь людям - ее призвание.
MBA - это не только степень, чья целевая аудитория состоит из инвестиционных банкиров, управляющих нефтяных корпораций или менеджеров консалтинговых агенств. Человеческие истории настолько уникальныи и неповторимы, что практически каждый может претендовать на зачисление... Читайте здесь историю девушки с медицинским образованием!
Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University
Будучи студенткой в медицинском колледже Baylor College of Medicine, Лиза была зачислена в Rice's Jones Graduate School of Management. Это эссе во многом помогло Лизе при рассмотрении приемной коммиссией ее пакета документов.
As the daughter of two physicians, I grew up not just aware of medicine but entirely immersed in it. My parents share an office in our home in Washington, DC, built as a residential addition in 1949 by my grandfather, a family physician. I have wonderful childhood memories of answering telephones and filing charts in the office, talking to patients and doing my homework after school in the waiting room. Today, together with one technician and one secretary, my parents continue to successfully manage their own private practices.
I do not expect my own medical career to be similarly structured. In fact, my parents' situation is an extremely unusual one today. With the rapidly changing environment of health care, physicians need to be aware not only of the advances in medical knowledge, but of the economic forces that dictate their ability to implement those advances. Medical technology is improving by leaps and bounds so that expensive machines and instruments are required for physicians in outpatient practice to provide the current standard of care. Our modern hospitals have a tremendous capacity to deliver life support and intensive care, but finance frequently becomes a deciding factor. Drug companies, too, with their tremendous financial clout, are an important element of our healthcare system, providing free samples for indigent patients and financially stimulating research to find new and better medicines, yet charging expensive fees for their products. However, it is the creation of managed care that has truly forced the medical community to face the financial complexities of the healthcare system.
Yet all too frequently physicians leave the practical aspects of the economics of care to others. Many now find themselves in a situation in which insurance company employees, often non-physicians, dictate the extent of care that can be reimbursed, in an attempt to control increasing healthcare costs.
This can lead to poor, inefficient patient care and hard feelings all around. In my medical school experience thus far I have witnessed frustrating, though likely well-intentioned, insurance policies in action. At the predominantly Hispanic family clinic in which I worked, a woman visited because of a frightening numbness and weakness in her legs. She needed to see a neurologist. However, we discovered that her employer had switched her to a new insurance plan, and our clinic was no longer an eligible site for her to receive primary care or referrals. Despite the change, she stayed on with our clinic's doctor because he spoke Spanish. She now faced a difficult decision: wait weeks to get another appointment with a new doctor, an official referral and an appointment with the neurologist; or visit the local emergency department.
Our country's health care system continues to be excellent, but we face new challenges in our ability to deliver and reimburse care for everyone. Only with intelligent planning and use of resources can we maintain and improve that quality of care while controlling costs. I believe that physicians who remain dedicated to their profession and to their patients should be the individuals responsible for guiding the economic transition of our healthcare system into the future. I am pursuing an MBA degree because I seek the training necessary to intelligently tackle the obstacles to good, cost-effective health care that have arisen today.
Perhaps I will found and run my own medical clinic; perhaps I will be instrumental in financially guiding the hospital or academic program with which I am affiliated; perhaps I will even be a lawmaker or lobbyist who helps institute a new national healthcare system. I do not know precisely what my future holds in store, but I do feel certain that with a strong background in business, management and finance, I will be well prepared to positively influence our healthcare system regardless of my professional sphere.
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