Brooklyn Maasch

Topic Introduction

Brooklyn Maasch

Rasmussen College

08/23/2020

For as long as I can remember, I wanted to work in a hospital. However, I could never figure out which role exactly it was that I wanted to play in that hospital. When I was a freshman in high school, I hurt my knee in a golf meet. I played it off for weeks, thinking that it wasn’t actually as bad as it felt, until I couldn’t walk more than a block without my knee becoming the size of a softball. When I finally decided to go to the doctor, they took some scans. It was then that I became interested in Radiology. From then on, I had a fascination with scans of the body. Weather it be x rays, CAT scans, MRI’s, I wanted to do them. I couldn’t tell you quite what it was, but I knew I found it interesting. When I was a junior, I took a day off school and job shadowed my local hospital, focusing mainly on the radiology department. I loved every single second of the day, but I knew something was off. To this day, I could never put my finger on what didn’t feel right about it, but I never pursued that career.

It is for that reason that I have chosen to focus on the area of Radiology for my project. I may never be able to figure out the exact reason that I couldn’t commit to going to school for Radiology, but I’m hoping this project will give me some sort of comfort in still getting to research about it and learn more about it. I often wonder where I would be in life if I had taken that path of Radiology, but everything happens for a reason, that I believe in. And I am loving what I am going to school for now, which is Healthcare Management. I have always loved the office setting, and I’m glad I will still get to do what I love while helping people as much as I can in the process.