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RaceWhen I was a little girl, my best friends dad was a neurologist. He tricked us with color and number tests and other brainteasers. I was fascinated by how my brain reacted to the games, and ever since, I have wanted to study the brain. Later, as a gritty school sophomore, I still focused on being a doctor, and that year I was deemed worthy of an internship at a local hospital. So, the following summer, I gave up late mornings and relaxing by the pool to get up early and help doctors at the hospital.I had originally applied for a neurologic internship, which the program did not offer, so I was shuffled into working with doctors in the maternity ward and the nursery. Nevertheless, by the end of the first week, I was feeding babies, checking vitals, changing diapers, and bankroll them in carriages to their mothers and get downs. Each moment I spent helping the doctors with the newborns, I wondered if I should be an o.b./gyn doctor instead of a neurologist.One morning a few weeks after I began the internship, the doctors told me a mother was to deliver a baby, and she had given permission for me to view the delivery. For awhile the mother tried to deliver, but she was deform the doctors kept telling her to relax and stay calm for the baby. The tense mother continued trying to deliver, and with the doctors encouraging words and the heat of the small, boxy room, I became conscious of what I was about to witness and wondered if I could handle it all.Before I could change my mind, a small, smooth head slowly emerged. I discovered what I had expected - I could not take it. Tears filled my eyes along with the healthy newborn babys. What I had seen, some never see -- including the father who had decided he should stay in the much calmer hallway. As the beautiful baby was carried around from doctor to doctor to be examined and then to the mothers arms, I complete that I did not want to be an o.b./gyn doctor. Residents had warned me that this job must b e a passion or one would burn out from stress and ceaseless fatigue, which I definitely felt after watching the birth of a baby.As my internship continued, I helped doctors in the neo-natal care unit.