Published August 04, 2012, 08:20 AM

Nursing student remembers how time overseas affected her studies

PIERRE — About a decade ago, Rebecca Ekidor was working in a hospital in Kenya. She’d already developed an interest in medicine, and she’d excelled in school. But while she was treating refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, her studies suddenly simmered with greater urgency.

By: Michael Neary , Capital Journal

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