Medicine - OohJulie

“Aiding in increasing healthcare access, delivering quality and compassionate healthcare, and reducing health disparities in underserved communities is the driving force behind my desire in becoming a physician assistant.”

This was the opening sentence of my personal statement for PA school, and this was a viewpoint I was deeply passionate about for years prior. This passion was reflected in my employment history and in community service efforts I participated in. Interestingly, now that I am a provider I see the complexity in accomplishing this in a broken health care system that is profit driven. Increasing access and delivering quality care is meaningless if profit is not generated.

Hello beautiful people!! So yesterday I asked one of the doctors I once worked with if he would be willing to write me a letter of recommendation for PA school. Anyone who knows me well knows I absolutely hate having to ask for a LOR. For some reason I always feel like I\’m a burden, but that\’s clearly my own hang-up I’m going to have to learn to get over. All week I had been gearing up to ask. Should I text or email, what should I say, how long should it be…. lol needless questions that caused me much anxiety. Anyway I finally sent the text and was ecstatic when he replied and said yes. Though, he did have a question for me

— Why did you go from Physician to PA to teaching to Public health, and back to PA?

I wasn’t expecting this question, but it got me thinking. The short response is I chose PA because I want to play an active role in reducing health disparities with marginalized groups, working primarily in primary care and substance abuse. However, this was not always my purpose and in fact my life has been a journey leading me to where God intends for me to be.

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