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Business Student Pursues Her Medical Dream

As she prepares to graduate from the UNLV School of Medicine next month, Ashley Newell Prandecki looks back at the self-doubt that almost stopped her from pursuing her passion.

Ashley Prandecki, center, passed up a business career to go into medicine.

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