I'm finished with my Assignment 2, and I have to admit that I NOW THINK TO MUCH before writing anything. OK Assignment 3 here I come. This is what I wrote for my profile. I'd love feedback please.
Seeing over the obstacles.
Marisol Cano-Ordóñez is a Post Doctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital. When I started this interview, I thought I would write on "macular degeneration" which is Dr. Cano-Ordóñez’s research interest. However, as I sat and listened to Dr. Cano’s interview, I came to believe that there was something else to talk about.
In the summer of 2004, Marisol Cano-Ordóñez (“Dr. Cano”), just married, arrived in Baltimore from Venezuela by herself to complete a post doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Like many immigrants, she confronted the common obstacles of being alien or an “other.” She experienced loneliness and homesickness, missing her husband, family and friends. The language barriers and learning all the new technical language in English for medicine. It was and still is very difficult sometimes but she said she was ready to fight against them.
“It doesn’t really matter what country you are from, life is full of obstacles that defeat us at every turn” she said. "But every day, everything I do I give it my best. I always had hopes, I had dreams. I just knew that if you keep working hard, things are going to turn around your way. I had no doubt in myself".
At work she is always under pressure to complete materials, making experiments that are trying to find a cure for macular degeneration and finishing projects that can show great medical results. She feels that these environments have made her create and adopt a new attitude in her life and work that have helped her to confront the every day obstacles. “The challenge is to find the way for the solution. I will go around, under and over the problem. Been persistence and with determination will get you from where you are to where you want to be, or very close to it”.
Dr. Cano encouraged her husband and two-year old baby girl to take this idea as their motor, “You just take a leap of faith, knowing there's no safer bet than one on yourself. Care about trying".
Thursday, March 13, 2008
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2 comments:
It's nice you brought out an unexpected story from her interview.
I wonder how many people encounter a foreign doctor and think 'gee, I wonder if they feel alienated from their country, family, etc?'
The story was nice and I wanted to know more about her experience as an immigrant, not about being a doctor.
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