Acting Dean Myra Hurt looks over the LCME databases ready for shipping,
one of the many things required to get accreditation. (College of Medicine
photo archive)
THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD TO TALLAHASSEE
This is a story about a girl who didn’t know where she was going until
she got there. The other day my daughter told me she was very worried
because she didn’t know exactly where she was going in life. I told her
there was no way you could map how I got from Hot Springs, Arkansas – where
I grew up and graduated from high school – to the FSU College of Medicine,
because there were so many twists and turns in my path.
People might think that someone involved in creating something as wonderful
as the College of Medicine at Florida State must have known exactly where
she was going and how to get there. I’m here to tell you there was no divine intervention,
there were no angels pointing the way. My husband claims that God
spoke to him in the hospital when he was hit by a car at age 10 and told him to
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