Before Nicole Everitt became a nontraditional medical student, she was a high schooler visiting a friend in the hospital. That experience proved to be life-changing.
“I can’t describe that, except it was electric,” Everitt said about walking through the hospital. “Suddenly, everything was in Technicolor.”
She researched hospital jobs such as food service and custodial work — but becoming a doctor felt out of reach. Everitt did not think a medical career would be possible because of her profound hearing loss…