Special Service Third-Year Resident Amanda Bohleber's Heart has Always Been in Medicine

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The first time Dr. Amanda Bohleber listened to a patient's heart with a stethoscope, she had the instrument on backward.

"I put it in my ears and I listened, and I glanced up at Dr. Newman and he knew that something was wrong. I looked at him, but I didn't want the patient to know," Bohleber recalled.

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Special Service Third-Year Resident Amanda Bohleber's Heart has Always Been in Medicine

"And he reached calmly across the patient, grabbed the stethoscope, turned it around and put it in my ears, and then I listened, and I was like: 'Oh, yeah; that's a heartbeat.'"

Dr. Kerry Newman, a Welborn gastroenterologist, recognized Bohleber's potential and passion for medicine as she worked as a patient transporter there. He took her on as a protege.

"And he gave me a long white coat and a stethoscope, and he'd bring me in and introduce me as someone who's interested in medicine, and the patients would s...

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