Word: professional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"The AAA committee in charge of planning the conference tried to get speakers that represent the full Asian-American spectrum," in terms of both nationality and profession, Ryou said. "We didn't just want politicians, we wanted writers as well."
Many volunteers say their experiences as third riders are nothing like the popularized "ER" and "Rescue 911" images of the emergency medical profession. Long hours are often spent transporting patients from one hospital to another or waiting in the ambulance garage.
Tripp says riding on ambulances exposes students who might be interested in medicine to the realities of the profession in a way that Harvard classes never could.
"This profession is under-paid anywhere you go," he says.
"If someone has been given the power to empathize...it should compel them to choose medicine or another healing profession," she says. "[The seer] made [medicine] more of an obligation [for me]. Nothing else would be as fulfilling or as beneficial to society for me to do."