https://doi.org/10.4081/qrmh.2017.6301

Finding myself in medicine

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2017)
Submitted: 21 September 2016
Accepted: 12 December 2016
Published: 15 February 2017
Medical careers, Individualized medicine, Tree of medicine
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Erin Nissen Castelloe
erin@castelloe.org
Private Pharmaceutical Medicine Consultant, San Diego, CA, United States.
In this article (part one of a two-article piece), I, Erin Nissen Castelloe, a woman who has worked almost twenty years as a doctor, first in the practice of Family Medicine and later as a Pharmaceutical Medicine consultant, ponder the next phase of my career. In an attempt to understand myself and my experiences in medicine – and to connect with others who may share my belief that medicine (and those who practice it) must evolve in order to empower and serve – I share my personal story: the influences and idealism that led me to medicine; the best career advice I ever received (from a patient, not a doctor); my past and present frustrations with clinical medicine; my struggles to balance my personal and professional aspirations; my growing dissatisfaction with a career in Pharmaceutical Medicine; and, ultimately, my attempts to collect, sow, and cultivate ideas that may – nurtured with tinctures of time and collaboration – become strong, new branches on the magnificent tree of medicine.

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Castelloe, Erin Nissen. 2017. “Finding Myself in Medicine”. Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare 1 (1). https://doi.org/10.4081/qrmh.2017.6301.

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