Melissa Weimer and Brian Jones
Recorded
August 13, 2009
Archived
August 13, 2009
41:31 minutes
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Id:
SFB000458
Description
Brian Jones, 30, interviews his wife Melissa Weimer, 30 about her choice to become a doctor and the challenges she faces in her career.Subject Log / Time Code
MW cites a trip to Mexico to build a health clinic when she was 12 as a large factor in her deciding to become a physician
MW talks about dealing with losing patients and says she be scared if it wasn’t hard
When asked by her husband what the hardest part of the job is, she talks about how it is difficult to have to always be steering the ship, without showing emotion, even if the ship is sinking and how it is hard to leave work at work sometimes
MW asks BJ what his view of her job is, he responds how it is incredible to hear some of the graphic details of her day
MW thanks BJ for his support; how the little things like bringing her coffee and making her lunch help her be a better person and a better doctor
Participants
- Melissa Weimer
- Brian Jones
Venue / Recording Kit
Tier
Keywords
- academic medicine
- Accidents
- Ambition
- anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
- apprenticeships
- balancing family with job
- careers decisions
- craft, skills, and procedures
- dealing with death
- Drive
- hardest part of job
- Having kids
- healing traditions
- Healthcare debate
- hopes for future
- illness
- Jewish medicine and dying
- job’s effect on marriage
- loosing a partner/loved one
- loosing patients
- medical colleges
- memories of growing up
- mexico
- OB/GYNs
- Old Town Clinic for Uninsured
- Oregon Health Science
- Paul Tillick
- personal experiences
- reinforcement
- relationship to death
- religion & medicine
- Religion is what matters most to you
- religious beliefs and practices
- Religious Studies
- role of faith
- school day memories
- social beliefs and practices
- Spouse
- Study abroad
- summer programs
- UVA