A virtual graduation ceremony was held this past Sunday for the University of Kansas School of Medicine but for some newly minted doctors, they graduated a few weeks earlier to help out rural communities in the Sunflower State with their battle against Covid-19. Jesse Voth-Gaeddert is one of those early graduates. “This is, you know, why you go into medicine, because we want to be of service.” He and 20 of his fellow KU Med students took part in the Kansas pandemic workforce volunteer program. It was created in March to help the state’s Covid-19 response. Jesse and another student were sent to Liberal for a week to support their hospital’s ICU nursing staff. “It was kind of exposure into how we can, how we go about working with Covid positive patients and treating them”
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