Health Care Personal Statement

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Ever since I was a child, I always envisioned myself working in healthcare, but I never developed an interest in a specific career until I entered high school. I joined a program when I was a sophomore that allowed me to leave my high school for half a day and go to a different school that solely focused on healthcare. There I was able to discover and explore all different medical fields and learned basic health procedures. After a year into the program, I was able to go to clinics and job shadow at different facilities; dialysis, internal medicine, x-ray, emergency room, etc. I got firsthand experience with different healthcare careers and after I finished my rotations, I became interested in the radiology department. While I was in the x-ray

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