Personal Narrative: A Career As A Radiology

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Radiology Angela Dean is my mentor. Angela Dean works at Mercy Clinic Westbrook in Edmond. Angela loves her job and everything that comes with it. She has worked there all her years of being a radiologist. Angela met a radiologist while working at a daycare then knew that was the job for her. The reason she stays in the field is the good pay and the loving people she meets every day. Angela did not know what she wanted to do at first right out of high school. She searched for jobs she wanted to do, but could not find one. One day while working at a daycare a parent came in in scrubs. Automatically, Angela was interested in her job. Angela knew she wanted to go into the medical field just did not know what exact thing she wanted to do. The

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