FIRST DAY

Time - 9 am to 3 pm
Total Hours - 6
On January 18 I met my mentor, in San Francisco, Dr. Javaheri one of the best plastic surgeons in California. His office was in one of these huge buildings that intimidate someone if they just look at it. It took me 10 minutes just to locate his office, but it had a couple minutes to spare because my appointment was at 9 am. After I finally found his office, as I went in I checked in with the receptionist and had to wait to meet Dr. Javaheri. After a few minutes he finally came out and we shook hands. I was really nervous of whether or not he would agree to be my mentor. He introduced himself and told me frankly, " it's hard to make it in the surgery business", and that I would have to work really hard to make it as a plastic surgeon. Then he told me about his experience and how his dad was a surgeon which made him want to be a surgeon.

 As he went on, he asked me a lot of questions about why I wanted to enter the field of survey and what made me want to be a medical student.  It really made me think and realize the importance of this mentorship and also the opportunity that this project gave me. He kept on answer me more questions about my family background and why being a surgeon is important to me, and we kept talking for a while. It made me feel very comfortable that he was so friendly and he seemed very nice and understanding person.

After we got done talking he took me around his office and showed me all these different rooms, that he operates on patients., He pretty much gave me a tour of his entire office and I was very surprised by how big it was. Then he also made introduces me to all of his staff and some of his colleagues who seemed like good people. I also noticed how cold it was most of the place we went into and it kind of made me regret not bringing a jacket. After the tour we were done for the day and I told Dr. J that I would email him and make another appointment to continue my hours.

Overall it was a very cool day, I had a lot of fun and saw a lot of new things. I also enjoyed talking to Dr. Javaheri and got to know him on more of a personal basis rather than as just my mentor. I learned about a lot of things in the medical field that are very interesting and stand out. All and all i had a great time today, hopefully i get to observe a surgery pretty soon, that would be pretty cool.
Peace out
Divyashish Kumar