2023-05-07 08:16:51
There are passions that are transmitted from parents to children, something that also happens with vocation. When you live each working day with enthusiasm, those emotions pierce your skin and are experienced as a family, where the smallest of the house learn, little by little, to love a profession. It is the case of laura espinosa, Head of Pediatric Nephrology at Hospital de La Paz (Madrid)who saw how the ‘seed’ of Medicine grew in her daughter, Laura García, almost without realizing it.
The Pediatric resident She confesses that when she was a child she never thought of studying to be a doctor and that her first choice was Biology. However, the relationship that her parents had with the patients and, above all, seeing them “not thinking regarding retirement every day” made her Medicine It will be presented as that ‘ideal’ job to which you dedicate your day to day.
“My parents (both are doctors) have a very nice relationship with the Medicine” and it was precisely that that hooked García to thinking that his future job was within the walls of the hospital. Although he doubted a little regarding the specialty, he confesses that rotating in GynecologyWhile attending a birth, she discovered that the one she wanted to be with was among children. Thus, she decided that she would follow in her mother’s footsteps to make the MIR.
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Laura Espinosa and Laura García, mother and daughter, share every day at the La Paz Hospital. |
Share service with your mother
“At first I was not amused that he came to Peace to do the MIR“, Espinosa explains before confessing that he changed his mind because this center is “a reference in Pediatrics”she might not deny that her daughter, having a note to be able to choose that service, discarded it just because she was in it.
Not only did her mother have reluctance, but she resident He also expressed doubts when making this decision. “Being able to share this experience with my mother made me feel a bit backward,” she confesses. “It was a challenge because you can talk a lot among your colleagues. But thinking regarding the prestige that this hospital has, to which I have been linked since I was little… I might not reject it.”
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García: “My parents have maintained a relationship with their patients and they have a very nice relationship with Medicine” |
Already in Peaceunder the orders of his mother, Laura Garcia He explains that he felt “a lot of pressure”, more than other service colleagues, but little by little he made a name for himself and those initial fears were over.
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Laura Espinosa, head of the Children’s Nephrology Service at Hospital de La Paz (Madrid). |
New generations of doctors
García is part of a new generation of doctors who arrive with other thoughts, a change that Espinosa has detected in recent years. “I think that the mentality of young people is totally different, not only in Medicine, but in general. That vocational idea that we had, well, you can’t find that. Of course they are more clear regarding their rights and claim, from the beginning, payrolls and things like that “, he confesses.
This generational leap is personified in these two women who share a vocation, service and family. Mother and daughter united by Pediatrics in the same hospital.
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Laura García, last year resident of Pediatrics at the Hospital de La Paz (Madrid). |
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Espinosa confesses: “At first, I was not amused that my daughter came to do the residency at the hospital where I work.” |
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