It takes a special person.

It does, and it takes, it does take a lot of grit and, um, uh, personal, um, heart to do work like that.

But I was exposed to so many families and patients of all sorts of background, all sorts of cultures, and it was a beautiful thing.

It was a beautiful thing to learn about the different ways families and people processed medicine and death, um, and illness, and then be- being able to meet them where they're at.

And it's helped me tremendously as a clinical student.

When I meet these families, and maybe they're met with a diagnosis and, you know, feel like no one's gonna understand, I'm able to bring those skills that I learned back when I was an undergrad.

So hospice was a really, like, big part of my life.

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