Sneha Desai
There wasn’t any one person or event that Sneha Desai, 26, credits for her decision to become a doctor. But the Washington native who grew up in a town just outside Seattle says medicine is such a fascinating career that “it’s hard for me to think that anyone wouldn’t want to do it.” During her undergraduate work in neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University, Desai volunteered at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, then briefly taught school before starting medical school. “I knew that I liked working in service, but I was not destined ultimately to become a teacher,” she says. But the interest in working with children stuck, and Desai plans to practice pediatrics.
One of her favorite things about medical school at Johns Hopkins is being with so many people from all over the world and from diverse backgrounds, which, she says, leads to many different ideas about practicing medicine. “One of my best friends recommends massage and acupuncture to her patients. Others are very “by the book,’” she says. “It’s really neat being at a place where people are so varied.”
As part of her med school education, Desai currently is doing a rotation on the labor and delivery unit. “It’s really a rollercoaster,” she says. “One day can be full of excited families, and the next day you have a person coming in who has a problem with her pregnancy. I don’t have children, and sometimes I think, am I really equipped to help these folks? You’re always trying to put yourself in their position. How would I feel if this happened to me?”
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