>> I think if you don't have a strong clinical background and if you haven't had the exposure
to working in a hospital or a health systems environment, anything that you could do
to volunteer within a hospital or health system or even getting an entry-level position,
whether it's a unit clerk on the floor or something in the health services area
where you're helping in the dietary department, I think gives you exposure to what it's really
like helping patients every day and the dynamics of all the people that have to work together
in order to have one patient taken care of.
It's not just the doctor.
It's the janitor, the secretary, the person preparing the food at the end of the day.
Taking care of sick patients really creates a team.
And I think there's many different areas of the health care field that you can focus in.
I never thought that I'd be in, you know, in heart and vascular.
My passion was always pediatrics.
And so I think as long as you're open to opportunity and willing
to challenge yourself, it's a great field to be in.