Cordell Jones

If we both think back to kindergarten or first grade, we can remember a day at school when we dressed up in the garb of the profession we wanted to grow up into as a career. Perhaps you remember how the typical children dressed up as firemen, policemen, EMTs, doctors, or the occasional Superman or Spider-man. I was that typical child in the doctors’ coat. As adults thinking back at those times, we know we were only children. I would say the most important factor in deciding to become a doctor came to me later in life while in high school. The inclination came to me in the time I spent volunteering in hospitals and clinics. I loved the direct, one-on-one involvement with patients, and I loved working as a member of a team with other health care providers. I realized that I also wanted to understand disease and disease processes, the treatment options available to the patients I was interacting with, and so on. Medicine was the logical next step.