Believing in E'Stephan

E'Stephan Garcia battled his way up from a life of drugs and drinking and hanging with gang members to become a physician. The young man, who graduated third from the bottom of his high school class, enlisted in the Army to escape a life that could easily have ended in death. He won an appointment to West Point and distinguished himself. Yet when it came time to realize his dream of becoming a doctor, the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine was the only place willing to believe in him. He rewarded that belief becoming a leader among his classmates. This seven-minute video chronicles a redemptive journey from the streets to the stars and illustrates in moving fashion the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine's educational mission.

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Education

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• medical school
• medical education
• Greeley
• Colorado
• West Point
• Army
• redemption
• believing in yourself
• potential
• E'Stephan Garcia

[JurisArcane]

Wow, what an amazing story Dr., very inspiring, and realistic. Thank you for sharing with us. I needed to see this.