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The Heritage of Medicine | Cesar Padilla, MD

The Doctor's Art

CHAPTER

The Difficult Journey to Becoming a Doctor

I'm curious where there ever moments when any of those things or maybe all of them combined made the journey to becoming a doctor, particularly difficult. And if so, how you've processed that difficulty and if you've been able to draw any additional meaning from what may have been difficult times on your journey to become a doctor. Yes, it was difficult. Being part of this first generation, my parents basically got through middle school. They came here and I grew up 20 minutes away from Stanford in the East Bay. The social determinants of our environment weren't really favorable for a young Mexican-American kid.

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