<p>So, I'm in a pre-med program with my school and I wrote an essay about a clinical experience I had at a hospital. My first choice school is rice, and I haven't submitted the essay there yet (thank god)...I applied to one back up school, and two match schools. In the essay I exaggerated a little bit. XD I didn't know it would be a big deal. I was trying to make my essay more....interesting. And some of the procedures I talked about weren't entirely true. My teacher asked me today if I actually did all that stuff. And it depressed me...bcuz it sounds like I'm already in the healthcare field when I'm not...according to her...but a lot of this really did happen...its just that I kinda get to do more than the average student.... Like one of the things i put in my essay was that i changed out the blood on an infusion pump (all I did was get the blood from the blood bank and placed it above the infusion pump while the nurse programmed it...so it's not like I lied....I just exaggerated/forgot to include her. I didn't do it myself). Or something else I said was that I activated a code blue on the patient I was emotionally bonded to (the nurses activated, I just assisted...but I think I could activate if I encountered a patient myself. I think anyone could. If I was on clinicals right now and I saw a patient in VF, I'd push the code button :/) but the three people I let read before I submitted it told me it was awesome and heart gripping (the conclusion was pretty awesome)....but will this hurt me? On my transcript they could see that I was in a premed program for three years...and this year I have clinical rotations. :/</p>
<p>The other thing is that in my essay I sounded a little cocky to the doctor, possibly :/. The doctor made a rude statement and I told him that I didn't believe the patient would die. Is that cocky? The way I worded it to the doctor wasn't really cocky, but it could be read as cocky. </p>
<p>Thanks! </p>
<p>P.S. Sorry for the text grammar. I'm typing this from my phone.</p>
Will it hurt me?</p>