Interview with a career expert on your interest

I have a passion known by many people. I want desperately to be a doctor. It has been my dream for years and I'm struggling so hard to achieve my goals.
I've done this interview to a doctor called Angel Cuquerella Fuentes. Coroner IMLC. Forensic psychologist. Psychotherapist. He said it was a little hard to answer my questions because he use to read articles in English but not write in this language. So I'll thankful for the time he spent answering my questions.

Good morning sir.

I would make you some questions about your career. That's important for me because next year I want to do the medical degree and it would be useful to know some things I'm worry about.

1. It is said that this degree is the hardest one, that you haven't social life. It's true that you haven't time to do anything else?

It’s wrong. I think that it’s better to spend your study time and others (friends, family, videogames, so on.) in a regulated manner. Surely, you will not have a lot of time, so,  you must to take advantage of it.  

2. What was the first thing you thought the first time you get in the surgery? How was your reaction?

All the pieces, all the organs are similar. Inside the body, all the surfaces are cinnamon-coloured. The human body is a puzzle, and we must to find what is the damaged piece and repair it.

3. What's the best thing in your career? What's the most rewarding thing at the end of the day?

The best thing was to observe directly the death in front of your eyes. Nevertheless, any special feel about it. It was different. I have to explain that I’m working in the forensic medicine.

Actually, the most rewarding thing?It’s to understand inside the criminal mind, why they do all that they do, every time. Second explanation: I’m also forensic psychologist.

4. What's the worst thing in your career?

It’s to autopsy a young corpse over the practice table, recently death and still keeping the warmth, with  similar age from my children.

5.Why did you choose medicine?

Because at earlier age (perhaps, when I was 8) I discovered and opened the little  mammalian corpses in the street, to observe inside it. It was fascinating...

6.What were your goals when you went into the medicine world?

The secondary goals were to save patients, especially, my grandfather (he suffered two heart attacks) but really, I was fascinated to explain, when the patient death, what was the primary cause, looking inside her or his body. The crime scene, also, are the best lab to study mental drives and criminal profiling.

7.What do you think about the entry of foreign doctors in the social security system?

It’s an incentive to improve a better level in the medical career. In “secondary” countries, we can find good level in medicine, for example, and an urge to survive looking for resources in first sector countries.

8.In the current years there are many cuts in education and health. Do you think this affect to the number of saved people in hospitals?

Of course, indirectly. Education and health are bad business and actually, they used the selected victims for the public administration, to reduce his/her public expenditures. 

9. What's your opinion about public and private medicine? Do you think their services are too different? What would be your advice for families, use social or private services?

Both. A lot of private doctors, in Spain, work also in the public administration. Is a regular income generation!

10.What do you think is the most important that a new doctor should know to be a good doctor in the future?

To listen his/her patients and translate to him/her an emotional bond. Good and affective words save more than medical devices or pharmacology.

Thank you for your time sir.

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