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Practice Reading: Reading and Writing Fill in the Blanks ID: #31479 Oxford Course
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When  I  enrolled  in  my  master's  course  at  Oxford  last  year,  I  had  come  straight  from  medical  school  with  the  decision  to  leave  clinical  science  for  good.  Thinking  back,  I  realise  that  I  didn't  put  very  much    on  this  decision  at  the  time.  But  today,  I  more  clearly  understand  the    of  leaving  my  original  profession.  When  I  meet  old  friends,  who  are  now  physicians  and  surgeons,  I  sense  how  our  views  on  medical  problems  have  .  They  scrutinise  the  effects  of  disease  and  try  to  eliminate  or  alleviate  them;  I  try  to  understand  how  they  come  about  in  the  first  place.  I  feel  happier  working  on  this  side  of  the  problem,  although  I  do  occasionally  miss  clinical  work  and  seeing  patients.
However,  when  I  think  about  the  rate  at  which  my  medical  skills  and  knowledge  have  ,  the  years  spent  reading  weighty  medical  textbooks,  the  hours  spent  at  the  bedside,  I  sometimes  wonder  if  these  years  were  partly  a    of  time  now  that  I  am  pursuing  a  research  career.
Nonetheless,  I  know  the  value  of  my  medical  education.  It  is  easy  to  forget  the  importance  of  the  biosciences  when  working  with  model  organisms  in  basic  research  that  seem  to  have  nothing  to  do  with  a  sick  child  or  a  suffering  elderly  person.  Yet,  I  still  have  vivid  memories  of  the  cruel  kaleidoscope  of  severe  diseases  and  of  how  they  can    a  human  being.  I  hope  to  retain  these  memories  as  a  guide  in  my  current  occupation.

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