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I chose to volunteer as an EMT to serve the medically-underserved individuals in my community. It enabled me to witness first-hand the extreme poverty that people are living in. The patients under the stressors of poverty are the ones most likely to get sick and least likely to get the treatment they need. We received calls from people who would otherwise not have sought medical care. It took a little getting used to when our homeless patients got anxious upon seeing “Current Address” on o