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Girls in STEM
When I was studying at Hacettepe Faculty of Medicine , when I saw that the treatment of chronic diseases such as my grandfather ' s disease was the only medication ; Internal medicine departments that corrected the findings and stopped its progress instead of eliminating or correcting the situation did not interest me at all . However , there was a movement in the surgical departments ; " Action " as you call it . Because there was a disease and surgeon could remove it with surgery or correct it completely . In doing so , he was taking every possible risk . However , as a result of a successful operation , the patient was fully recovered . It is like a divine power for me and it still like this . For this reason , I had to decide in which field I would be a surgeon by doing my surgical internships very actively at the medical school . Dealing with intra abdominal surgery in areas such as general surgery and pediatric surgery did not interest me . I was very interested in neurosurgery , especially the surgeries performed under the microscope , but I did not turn to that field because of the long assistantship .
In my last year , I worked in plastic surgery and reconstruction surgery department for 2 months . I was very interested in the stitching of the severed hands and fingers , so that the patient did not lose function . It was great to stitch veins / nerves in front of the microscope for hours and eventually give the patient ' s hand back in good condition . However , the long duration of the assistantship this department also increased my despair at that time . I wanted to work under the microscope and I wanted to do a special surgery . At that time , performing the first face transplant surgery in Turkey Dr . Ömer Özkan who is the person showing me the way and mentoring me in my assistant for a short period . He asked " Why I didn ' t consider the ear surgery ?" I had never thought of it and I had no information about it . They gave me permission and I got the knowledge by attending ear surgeries before I have not taken the specialty exam .