"Bad things can happen to people, and if I can change that with my skills, that's something that I find very enjoyable. The very nature of General Surgery is that these bad things will land in my lap. If I can do my best to reverse them, then although some may find it to be a strange sense of enjoyment, it's one of the things that inspires me to continue to be my best."

This is a tricky question that asks you to explain how someone can really enjoy something that is otherwise tragic or dire to the person being treated. It is a question that will show how well you reconcile two conflicting emotions. The trick to the question is that that enjoying what you do means, in a sense, that it's 'fun'; however, that doesn't mean that it is 'funny'! Thus, making that distinction is easier and not as frightening as the question seems at first.

"There is a satisfaction in doing things well and that makes what you do, enjoyable. Even when the situation is tragic for my patient, I can enjoy doing my best as something that is on another level altogether."