Sara Ann O'Sullivan

I feel like I rarely speak about medical school in these Newsletters. While this website and blog are more for my writing and its promotion, I tend to forget about the other side of my life. I avoid mentioning the topic of it sometimes and I have never exactly understood the reason for it.

Medience is me just as much as writing is. I think sometimes we are conditioned to believe that we can not have it all. I should just be a medical school and not a writer but I am a writer and I am a medical student. Both are essential to who I am. Without medical school, I am not sure where I will be. I decided on this path in the 10th grade and stuck with it through hell and high waters. I took the MCAT at the end of my undergrad degree. I did not do as well as I wanted but also did not study as well as I wanted.

Someone recommended me to Caribbean’s medical schools and I thought why not? I have always been curious to live on an island. So I applied and got in with a catch. The catch was that I had to do a 14-week program that was supposed to set me up for medical school. So I did it. Fail it. Did it again and then got into medical school.
And then I have been at my current school for 5 semesters. Fail one so currently in the 4th semester and after the 5th semester I will be officially in the clinical portions of my studies why is Cardiology the title of this Newsletter?

Because that is what I am studying right now. The pathology of Cardiology to be exact. From Heart Attacks to Hypertension to Birth defects. Cardiology isn’t something I am sure I want to study in the long term but I do find it very cool. It is one of those subjects that I naturally could pick up on. I have found that some things that I am not so naturally good at.

But there is so much related to Cardio and how at the core of the body, the heart does dictate a lot about your health. Which I encourage anyone and everyone to learn what they can about their hearts and how to live their healthy lifestlyles

As always thank you to everyone!