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My Experience Of Volunteering At St. Francis Medical Center
Volunteering at St. Francis Medical Center has been such a great educational experience for me. I have been there for about three years and I am still planning to continue.
When I first began there, I had no intention of staying. I never desired to have a career in the medical field or have anything to do with it. I always felt that it was something that my parents expected me to accomplish and being pressured into it caused me to rebel against the idea. At the time, I wanted to pursue a career involving sports such as football. Now that I’m older, I realize that it was just another phase in my life just as the ten other phases that I experienced. When I was in the hospital assisting nurses and caring for patients, I always felt I made no
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