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"I am still just feeling like I'm in a dream, because I could have never imagined that I'll be going back to the same hospital I was not only born at, but a janitor at, to be a doctor for my community," she said.
Taylor-Allen said she didn't always know she wanted to go to medical school and was motivated to become a doctor after her experience helping her mom when she was sick.
"It wasn't until my sophomore year [in college, when] my mom became ill, that I realized that I wanted to become a doctor," she said.
Taylor-Allen said she was working as a janitor at Yale's hospital while her mom was sick and mentioned her story to the former hospital CEO, whose office she cleaned. She said the CEO was able to assist her and her family, and that experience inspired her to see how she could advocate for and work to help others.
"I [saw] firsthand how advocacy worked, and I knew I wanted to do that one day. I was like, whoa, just reaching out to [the former hospital CEO], completely changed everything [for] my mother," she recalled.
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Taylor-Allen said she didn't always know she wanted to go to medical school and was motivated to become a doctor after her experience helping her mom when she was sick.
"It wasn't until my sophomore year [in college, when] my mom became ill, that I realized that I wanted to become a doctor," she said.
Taylor-Allen said she was working as a janitor at Yale's hospital while her mom was sick and mentioned her story to the former hospital CEO, whose office she cleaned. She said the CEO was able to assist her and her family, and that experience inspired her to see how she could advocate for and work to help others.
"I [saw] firsthand how advocacy worked, and I knew I wanted to do that one day. I was like, whoa, just reaching out to [the former hospital CEO], completely changed everything [for] my mother," she recalled.
Woman returns as doctor at hospital where she worked as a janitor
It’s a full-circle moment for one soon-to-be medical school graduate.
From hospital janitor to doctor: Shay Taylor returns to Yale in full circle moment
Taylor, 32, is going viral after matching for a residency in anesthesiology at Yale New Haven Hospital, the very place
