A Career In Physical Therapy

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As a person, I want to have a career that betters others lives. Specifically, ever since I was a young kid, I wanted to grow up to work in the medical field. Growing up, I had relatives who worked in various types of medical professions. At the dinner table, I would hear talk of how they impacted patients' lives and how the patients enriched their life in return. This created in me or even strengthened, the already existing, the want to help people. As a physical therapist, I will be helping people, I will be participating in furthering the science of therapy, and along the way my patients will impact my life as well. Throughout the various jobs I've worked in the summers, I've come to the realization that I love interacting with people

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