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[LEAVES CRUNCHING]

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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Over the years, I've just kind of learned
that music is such a universal language.

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No matter where you are, no matter who
you're with, music is always meaningful.

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As I'm traveling all around the world,
music will be playing a very big part

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in how I connect with other people. Over
the next two years before heading off to

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med school, I will be embarking on a self-planned and self-funded trip around the

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world. I'll be visiting hospitals, I'll be
volunteering at health clinics, helping

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physicians do administrative work and
some very basic procedures.

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The big purpose of this trip is to really
broaden my perspective of global health

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systems around the world. You can read
about these issues and you can watch

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videos about them, but until you
step outside of your personal cultural

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bubble and go firsthand to another
country, you can't really fully

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understand a different culture and a
different group of people.

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This trip is an opportunity for me to
see where and how I can make the most

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impact when I become a global
physician. I truly believe it's my

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calling to help people and to connect
with people all around the world, whether

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it be through helping at health clinics
or learning about the communities or

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just playing music.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]