「天職適齢」宮沢あゆみ著
あゆみクリニックの医師「宮沢あゆみ」の著書、「天職適齢」をご紹介します。
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「序章」より抜粋
本書には、二つの意味あいがある。
一つは、記者と医者というまったくジャンルの異なる
二つの職業の実態を 浮き彫りにした「職業ドキュメンタリー」という側面である。本書を読んでいただければ、記者と医者という職業の実態を、興味を持って知っていただくことができるだろう。
もう一つは、この不透明なリストラの時代に、一人の人間が組織の歯車となることに抵抗し、人生を意思的に生きようと思った時に、どんな困難に直面し、それを乗り越えるためにどうあがいてきたかという｢転職ストーリー」としての側面である。成功のレールに乗りきれなかった人、レールに乗っていたが途中で脱線してしまった人には是非読んでいただきたい。
天職適齢 目次
序章
第一章 人生の選択
サラリーマン人生の不確定さ 10
決断させた母の病と死 22
第二章 ＴＢＳ報道記者時代
ＴＢＳ入社 28
初仕事はギャグのネタづくり 46
政治経済部に配属 59
女性初の総理番記者 71
権謀術数の「衆議院解散」 81
「大型間接税導入は考えていない」の言質を引き出す 86
第三章 医学部入学
10年ぶりの受験勉強 98
医学部というところ 103
医学部生のひ弱さ 111
家庭教師で食いつなぐ 118
綱渡りの連続だった学費納入 121
宇宙語のような生化学講義 128
つかみどころのない生理学 137
ゴロ合わせで覚えた薬理学 144
神秘的だった脳の構造 157
ついに「幽霊学生」となる 162
ニューヨーク留学 168
実践的な医学教育 169
厳しい競争社会 177
実力が問われる臨床実地試験 180
スリリングだった外科実習 184
女性のトータル・ヘルスケアを目指して 189
踏み倒された学費 192
第四章 いま、臨床医として
人品卑しい医者 208
看護婦の百面相 220
過剰手術の罪と罰 228
三通のカルテより 237
病は誰のもの 250
終章 人生のシナリオは自分で書く
“Where there is a will, there is a way”
An autobiography in Japanese
This is a book written by a unique Japanese woman who changed her career from a TV journalist to a medical doctor dramatically in her thirties.
Ayumi Miyazawa was the first female journalist to work in the Political Economic Department at Tokyo broadcasting System.
During her tenure she was chosen to cover the elections of The House of Representatives and The House of Councilors. During one press conference, she made Prime Minister Nakasone publicly guarantee that he would not introduce a new consumption tax, even if his party were to win the election. Unfortunately, after winning the election however, he failed to keep his promise. This broken promise became his weak point and eventually the newly elected cabinet was forced to resign.
When she turned twenty-seven years old, her life changed. Her mother, who had been battling cancer for eighteen years, died. She will never forget her mother ‘ s pain and suffering and everything they both went through during this very trying time in their lives. This tragedy put her into deep thought and she began wondering why this painful and debilitating disease took her mother ‘ s life. Over the course of the next four years, she gradually decided to change the direction of her own life forever. This new direction took her into the world of medicine where she decided to pursue a new career path and become a medical doctor.
She studied hard and successfully entered medical school. After becoming a medical student, she kept working in order to earn all of her school expenses and cost of living. She also struggled against the conservative medical world, and the many professors who look upon themselves as special people and are so arrogant in their attitude. While she was at the medical school, she passed the exchange program and was enrolled at New York Medical College in the U.S.A. as an exchange student. There, she recognized that medicine has no boundary.
Presently, she is working as a doctor at the OBGYN section of Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutou General Hospital . She has decided that she wants to care for women ‘ s health and for individuals who are terminally ill. Not only the political world, but also the medical world is full of inconsistencies and irrationalities. She does not stop fighting against such inconsistencies and irrationalities. She continues her dual careers as a journalist and a doctor, and struggles to change the conservative medical world by writing books.
Indeed, there are a lot of obstacles to overcome along the way if one is to see one ‘ s dreams become reality. Since she did not give up and persisted in her studies, her dream eventually came true. Where there is a will, there is a way.
