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So , uh my specialty is pediatrics and

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our mission is to care for the Children

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and families of the active duty service

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members . Uh A lot of us also deploy

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very frequently on the hospital ships

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to care for Children in developing

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countries . Uh as part of Pacific

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Partnership or continuing promise . Uh

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We also deploy uh like right now to

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Qatar to care for Afghani refugees who

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are processing to come to America . Uh

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We go to a lot of humanitarian missions

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and um take care of kids all around the

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world . Uh So pediatrics is incredibly

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rewarding . Uh The reason I went into

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it was I loved being able to affect

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change in someone from a very young age .

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If you can change someone's behavior

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when they're uh 9 10 , even a teenager ,

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you can affect their entire late life

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and changed the whole course of their

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future . Whereas when I was in medical

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school , you know , an adult , you can

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add a year or two . It was , it was

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very hard to get them to change . But

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kids were so enthusiastic about making

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healthy choices and doing things to

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better their lives . And , and I really

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like that . So the Navy has impacted me

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personally in a huge way . Uh I

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think that if I hadn't done HPSP , my

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career would be in a completely

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different place and I am so grateful

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that I made that choice . Um I've

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gotten to live in so many different

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places . I've gotten to go to so many

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different places . I got to participate

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on Pacific Partnership on continuing

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promise . I got to spend three years

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living in Japan and getting to learn

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the culture and meet the people and

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getting to really practice medicine in

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a completely different environment than

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any of my colleagues from medical

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school . And it's really , it hasn't

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been exactly what I thought it was

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gonna be in the sense of I didn't

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subspecialized the way that I had

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originally thought I was going to . But

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I'm so grateful that I didn't because

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if I wasn't a general pediatrician , I

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think I would have missed out on so

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much . And that's something that I'm

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incredibly grateful to the Navy for .

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Uh I've also gotten to develop myself

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as a leader and , and try out new

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positions that I wouldn't have gotten

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to do if I hadn't uh been practicing in

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the Navy .