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JARAE NG Committee: Previous Undergraduate Co-Manager Major: N/A Hometown: Sacramento, CA Career Goals: Doctor Year in School: Alumni Favorite Color: Any Shade of Blue Favorite Vacation Spot: Anywhere tropical and exotic |
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What do you like best about the Willow Project? I believe that being able to communicate and interact with your patients is the most essential part of being a good doctor. From volunteering with the Willow Project, every aspect of clinic helps you to build those important skills. Just by talking to your patients, you make a large impact on their lives. Whether you are at the reception desk or in the intake room, you are constantly interacting with patients. Even on down time the patients always find a way to make conversation with the volunteers. Their life stories are inspirational and heartbreaking at the same time. It is through these stories that really allow us to connect with patients and understand who they are as people than just patients. What is your most memorable Willow Project experience? Unfortunately I don’t have a particular memorable experience from a point in time, but my memorable experience encompasses the 2 years I’ve been with the Willow Project. When I first started, the Willow Project was just starting up. Basically, we were somewhat of a mobile clinic. We didn’t have a place to store all your supplies so we had to bring our supplies to and from clinic and man were those boxes heavy. But we have come a long way in the past 2 years. We established a permanent supply cabinet in the Salvation Army and we even expanded out patient care services. In the past month we opened a wound care unit for the homeless that are recovering from surgery. We have also expanded our health educational services through having presentations for the homeless in Salvation Army about certain health risk prevalent in the homeless population. With the expansion of the clinic, many new volunteers were recruited to help maintain our health services. We are now 22 undergraduate volunteers strong. What does being a part of the Willow Project mean to you? Willow Project means the life to me. I’ve been too far involved in this clinic to just let it go, even if I am graduating this spring. My goal is to help make the Willow Project an established clinic with its own facility. I hope to one day be a volunteer for the Willow Project as a medical student and eventually comeback as a preceptor. Give an interesting story or fact about yourself? Even though my names is Jarae many know me as Dr. Dre. No, I am not a rapper, but my name sounds a lot like the rapper’s name. Most of the time when I introduce my self, people would say, “Oh, like Dr. Dre?!” And so it goes….. my nick name is Dr. Dre. What fruit are you and why? I would have to say I am a tomato because when I drink my face turns tomato red. Im not just any tomato, but a cherry tomato because I’m tiny. Tiny, but versatile. Lets see, there’s V8 tomato juice, tomato sauce, tomatoes in salad, pizza, hamburgers, tacos, salsa, and ketchup. And you cant rule out La Tomatina, the largest tomato fight in Valencia, Spain. Most of the time a tomato is mistaken for a vegetable just like the way I’m mistaken for either Japanese or Korean. SO! There you have it America, I AM A TOMATO. What do you really think about Ryan & Jarae? Well, I think Jarae is an odd creature. Ok, I am going to stop writing about my self because its strange to describe myself in third person. I just hope that my fellow volunteers see me in the same positive light that I see them in. This is what I really think about Ryan. Let me just say that my stress level is raised a notch from all the worrying he does. I’m just kidding. I have yet to mention all the hard work and contribution he has made in keeping the Willow Project alive and thriving. He has sacrificed most of his Saturdays for clinic to ensure that everything is running smoothly and that the patients are happy. And with our past March fundraising event, he has sacrifice all his free time getting donations and making sure that everything is planned out. What makes Ryan a great co-manager is his funny personality. There is never a dull moment with his random outburst of rap lyrics. |
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