by Ashley Estrada, Staffwriter
Devils’ Advocate

The Health Academy prepares students during high school to go on to a health career in college. After a long year of training and preparation, all the seniors of the Health Academy finally got the opportunity to go to Sharp Hospital to be an intern in the area of the hospital they want to focus on. One of the academy’s students was Halil Mejia; he left to the hospital with the rest of the students at 9:40 a.m. He was placed in the EMR section, (the emergency room). He introduced himself to the nurses and doctors and told them that he could help with anything; he would do mostly cleaning and making the beds. Sometimes, if the patients needed help, he would help them as long as it was allowed by his mentor. Every time he had to interact with one of the patients, he asked the mentor or the nurse if he could. Halil said that this is a very interesting experience and that he can’t wait until the day he can work at the hospital, to succeed in his chosen career path which Sweetwater has begun to prepare him for.