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So preventive medicine is um

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is the specialty I I chose while I was

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in Haiti , I worked with um an

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environmental health officer and a

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prevent a medicine technician . And I

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watched them try and prevent mosquito

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borne disease . That was like my first

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exposure to prevent a medicine . And

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then while I was a medical student at

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us , we had several exposures to

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preventive medicine . And one of them

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was a lecture from an army colonel

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named Michael Lewis . And he described

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a scrub typhus outbreak investigation

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that he helped lead in the Maldives .

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And so based on that , it made me think

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about that preventive medicine provided

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the opportunity to help not just

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individual patients but an entire

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population . And so that appealed to me

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at the time that we were choosing

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specialties . So in preventive medicine ,

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we do outbreak investigations , we

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write health policy . Uh we sometimes

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provide direct patient care . We serve

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as advisors to um medical and line

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leaders and they conduct disease

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surveillance . I guess what's unique is

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that it's a very diverse specialty . We

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don't often do the same tasks in

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each um billet that we serve in . So in

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my case , for example , I've done

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research , I've done work with

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mortality data to try and make vehicles

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and body armor safer for those who are

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deployed down range . I've worked

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with uh military recruits to try and

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preserve and protect their health while

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they're going through training . I've

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served in an operational unit with the

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Marine Corps and currently I do health

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policy at the Navy Medical

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headquarters . I think for me , the

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Navy and my work colleagues have

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become a second family . And so

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the people who have chosen this

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profession are very important to me .

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And that has motivated me and

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instilled in me a desire to , to help

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and work with others . That's what I

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appreciate most about the Navy is that

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it's a challenging profession and

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it's not always structured . Sometimes

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you have to be creative and problem

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solve . And I really appreciate um the

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team aspect of being in the Navy .