Girls in STEM 33
Rukiye Ok
Dr . Lecturer Fulya Özer
Başkent University , Ear , Nose and Throat Diseases
On 20th of April our first guest was ENT Dr . Fulya Özer . Our students and we have benefited greatly from her experience and advice . Our students asked questions so the webinar was effective . Here is apart of her speech .
" I am Fulya Özer . I am 45 years old . I am from Ankara . I am married and have a 13-year-old daughter . I work as an ENT doctor at Başkent University Faculty of Medicine Adana Hospital . I would like to explain briefly why and how I decided to become a doctor and do what I am doing now .
I actually wanted to be a doctor since I was 4 years old . In fact , my first patient is my grandfather who frequently comes to Ankara for hospital check-ups due to his heart failure . There were no toys like doctor kits . In order to listen to my grandfather ' s heart , I tied a rope in the middle of a hair crown and , sticked a 2.5 TL coin to the end of the rope and made a stethoscope . My grandfather would recover with the medicine I gave ( Chickpea wrapped in chewing gum papers ) and came to us again .
I studied primary , secondary and high school in public schools . I have never taken private lessons or attended a college education . Despite that , I never gave being a doctor . In fact , I was not surprised when I got into Hacettepe English Faculty of Medicine in the university exams . It was a result that I had been dreaming of for years and striving according to my possibilities .