271: Five Minute Friday: From Being a Pre-Med Student To Becoming LA's Pink Gloved Injector
Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™
Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay
4.9 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, |
| 0:19.9 | and today on the podcast, it's time for a five-minute Friday. |
| 0:23.9 | We have a special treat because I have my pre-med student, Jacqueline, here with me. |
| 0:30.0 | Jacqueline's a junior at SMU. |
| 0:32.2 | And she's interviewing me to find out all about how to become a doctor, a plastic surgeon, an injector, a boss girl, a mom, |
| 0:41.9 | a wife, all the things. Jacqueline say hey to our audience. Hi guys. And as we are doing this, |
| 0:50.2 | we're multitasking a little bit because that's what we boss girls have to do. So Jacqueline's going to ask me questions and I always get a lot of questions about what does it take to become a doctor. |
| 1:00.0 | What does it take to be a plastic surgeon? |
| 1:03.0 | How do I get to be an injector? |
| 1:05.0 | So let's start with maybe premed. |
| 1:08.0 | So Jacqueline ask me what you want to ask. |
| 1:10.0 | Ask what all those pre-meds and all those |
| 1:12.0 | injectors want to know about the process. So what was it like in med school? Did you feel that you had |
| 1:17.5 | to prove yourself more compared to the boys? That is a great question. And I actually have never felt |
| 1:24.9 | like that. I've always, silly me, have always felt to be smart, |
| 1:29.4 | and I've always felt I could compete with the guys all through grade school, elementary school. |
| 1:34.9 | I guess, you know, I was not one of the popular kids, for sure, |
| 1:39.4 | but I definitely was one of the kids who studied really hard, |
| 1:42.7 | and I always had confidence in my skills |
| 1:44.9 | of being able to achieve whatever I set my mind to. So I think, and that's a message to all |
| 1:49.9 | guys and girls out there, like if you invest in your skill set and you can get those skills and |
| 1:56.3 | you prove yourself by suffering, enduring, working hard, learning, you're never going to doubt yourself |
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