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COM Outlook . Fall 2012
raduation is usually a time filled with myriad emotions for those
hard-working individuals who have successfully completed the
arduous trek through medical school. Although great exaltation is the
overriding emotion, it’s often difficult to avoid experiencing a sense of
general unease at what the future may hold as newly minted alumni
embark on their internships and residencies of choice.
As you will read in the following account of the pathways she pur-
sued to achieve her D.O. degree, the future looks exceedingly bright
for Lindsay LaCorte, D.O., M.P.H., as she confidently progresses to
the next stage of her osteopathic training.
Interestingly, a medical career wasn’t initially in the cards for Dr.
LaCorte, who didn’t even contemplate becoming a physician until
after she graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara,
in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry. “When I
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was in the fifth grade, I wrote a 10-page essay about what I wanted
to be when I grew up that included diverse careers such as dancer,
actress, physicist, mathematician, and scientist. Surprisingly, physi-
cian wasn’t on my list,” said Dr. LaCorte, who was born in Boston,
Massachusetts, and spent her formative years shuttling between the
East Coast and California.
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When I moved to California at the age of 14 to live with my
dad, it proved to be a major turning point,” said Dr. LaCorte, whose
parents and grandparents were teachers. “I went to high school
and played water polo, but I was still a math and science geek. I
really liked physics and actually was accepted into the University
of California, Berkeley, to earn a degree in it. That was my original
plan, but then I realized just how boring it was. Theoretically I loved
it, but I was just sitting at a desk studying or sitting at a lab bench
By Scott Colton, B.A., APR
NSU-COM/HPD Director of Medical
Communications and Public Relations
Lindsay LaCorte. D.O., M.P.H.
Grace
and
Determination
Personified
Class of 2012 Spotlight
