Posted on 11/20/2006 2:02:06 AM PST by xtinct
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Washington University student Leana S. Wen's childhood asthma was so severe that part of her lung was removed. Her frequent hospitalizations led her to pursue a career in medicine while she was still a teenager.
"I wanted to help the world," Wen said.
Her work toward that goal helped her become one of the 32 men and women across the United States selected Sunday as Rhodes Scholars for 2007. The students will enter Oxford University in England next October.
Wen, 23, was born in Shanghai, China, and her family sought political asylum in the United States when she was 8. She started college at 13 and will finish medical school in May.
She has served as the national president of the 65,000-member American Medical Student Association and as a global health fellow for the World Health Organization in Geneva.
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I'm no doctor, (or Rhodes Scholar), but ...
I am a doctor and I have never heard of removing lung tissue to treat asthma.
Omit out the Sanskrit, Chinese and Jewish names -- and there ain't much left!
[Kudos to those ethnic groups. But shame on the rest of us!]
It would would be so refreshing to just once hear some kid say, "I wanted to make lots of money, get a Porsche and have my pick of hunky men".
Just as an aside....Cecil Rhodes, for whom the scholarship is named believed in an elite ruling class and this is somewhat the line of study made available to these "Scholars"
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