Jennifer Boldrick Biography

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Medicine Summary Cole Medicine and an Easy Lifestyle Finding a job in the field of medicine almost seems like a challenge that cannot be met when asking for such an uncommon and leisurely lifestyle. Jennifer C. Boldrick, a young graduate of Stanford University Medicine School, has many long term goals that she hopes to one day lead to prosperity and luxury. Being a well known dermatologist is at the top of her priority list, along with having a life outside of medicine not falling too short behind. Dr. Boldrick is one of many students going into the field of dermatology due to many of the amazing benefits and the “controllable lifestyle” (pg. 271, 3) that she is hoping for in her long awaited adventure. “I want to have a family. And…show more content…
According to the American Medical Association, the yearly salary for the average dermatologist totals about $221,000, only to subsidize the lied back 46-hour weeks. This lifestyle doesn’t only pay such a ponderous amount but it is substantially less time consuming than any internal medicine job out there. The general surgeon averages $238,000 a year, but almost works themselves to death with a killer 60-hour week, leaving them almost no time for a life outside of work. Internal medicine jobs have some of the highest paying professions in the medical field, but for a lot of these jobs, the adverse hours and the off the clock emergencies just don’t seem to excite students like they used to. Lee Ann Michelson, the director of premedical and health care advising at Harvard University says that children of many physicians are “…concerned they will be as absent in the lives of their children, as their parents were.” (pg. 273, 18) For the twin brothers Z. Paul Lorenc and Marek M. Lorenc, medicine is a big part of each of their lives, but for one it is almost too much for his family to handle. Z. Paul Lorenc is a respected plastic surgeon in Manhattan, but almost an illusion is the eyes of his family. Working from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., he doesn’t give himself much time at all to see his wife and kids, but he says “that is what the pursuit of excellence in his specialty requires.” (pg. 273, 24) For his brother Marek, though, it is a different story. He arrives to work at 8 a.m. and is home by 6p.m., giving him an abundance of time to spend with his loving wife and kids, as a soccer coach and mainly a

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