I always knew I wanted to be a doctor because my older brother who I really looked up to became a doctor. When I started medical school, I thought I definitely did not want to be a surgeon. That was because surgeons appeared to be not nice people on TV shows. I also thought being in the operating room would be tedious. The reality for me, was that after I started my surgical rotation as a medical student, I found that surgery was really exciting, and that surgeons were some of the most kind, dedicated, hard-working people I had ever met. Those things really motivated me to become a surgeon.