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CHOC Children's Breathmobile Experience
The CHOC Children’s Breathmobile is the mobile asthma clinic dedicated to serving underserved children who may be unable to travel or pay for preventive asthma care in Orange County. As a volunteer, I helped nurses organize patients' charts, fax medical records, and confirm appointment schedules for patients' parents. Sometimes, I came with nurses and doctors to clinic sites to serve as a translator or simply shadow doctors. One doctor told me that regardless of whether the patients had insurance, the doctor would not turn anybody away if they were in need. Through this experience, I learned that the most gratification I could get is not receiving, but giving back to the

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