Salve! My name is Jordon Walker and I am currently a sophomore, soon to be junior, at Yale University. At Yale I am pursuing a premed track and I wanted to create this blog to write about my experiences and post about other things I've noticed in healthcare. Aside from academics, I currently work in a medical genetics clinic, shadow at Yale New Haven Hospital, am active in the Yale Political Union and the Roosevelt Institute on campus. This summer I was lucky enough to be offered a position in a diabetes research lab at the Anylan Center, which is located in the medical complex near the Yale School of Medicine.
As far as future aspirations go, I intend to go to medical school (obviously) at the University of Texas's Southwestern Medical School or Georgetown Medical School. After that I would like to complete a residency in internal medicine and go on to become either a private practice internist or work for a pharmaceutical company running clinical trials (Yes, I am a die hard capitalist, who wants to assist the evil Big Pharma companies. You know, the ones whose research develops life saving therapies like Viagra). If I choose not to go down either of those paths, then I will become a physician for either the Marines or the Navy (my uncle was a Marine and made it sound bad ass, but I also love water) and hopefully get to see exotic locales and explore the world.
In terms of this blog, it will cover a wide range of topics depending upon my specific inclinations of the day. From health care policy to Medical schools to the more mundane aspects of being a premed (read: grades :O), I hope to cover all that and more. In reality I doubt many people will view this blog so it is mostly for me. I have always wanted to write books (my first one was written in middle school and it was no doubt ghastly) and hope to one day become a novelist as well as a doctor--or at least that is what I keep telling myself, while I imagine my perfect future. For me, the best thing that could happen would be for me to publish my first book the year I graduate from medical school. Eventually, I would like to write a trilogy of books in the fantasy realm akin to the Eragon books, but better because they would have a deeper underlying message, which I failed to notice in Eragon or rather I read it at such a young age that I don't even remember what it was about. Either way, I'm sure my novel will be better or at least the movie that will be made from it--because the Eragon movie was dreadful.
Well that's who I am and I hope all two of you, who will actually read this, will enjoy the blog from here on out!
