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Jennifer Weiss’s path to medicine began as a young child, when an ambulance responded to her New Jersey home to care for her dad, who has heart disease. During the scary episode, one of Weiss’s earliest memories, the emergency medical technicians and paramedics offered empathy and compassion and put everyone at ease.
Inspired to help others, Weiss trained as an EMT at age 16 and joined her local first aid squad. But she quickly realized that she wanted more.
“I wanted to have a greater impact on my patients than just the short ride to the hospital,” she said, “where my knowledge and skills stopped and the receiving physician’s skills took over.”
