Personal Narrative: A Career As A Dentist

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Ever since I was about five years old, I thought that I was going to go to school to become a dentist. I even shadow a dentist to see what their daily routine was like. But once I started doing a little more research and after I had the opportunity of shadowing a dentist I then decided that it was not the career for me. In high school I also got the opportunity to job shadow at Jackson Hospital, Baptist South Hospital, and at Health South in Montgomery, Alabama. I got the opportunity to shadow because of a class that I was taking at my high school. At these different places I got to see what it was like to work in the health care field. I eventually got interested in Physical Therapy after shadowing a rehabilitation center. So when I applied

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